The Citadel — Nicola Rhodes

The Third Book in The SCI'ON Trilogy
Life Is But A Dream …

Out of the destruction of the old worlds, a new SCI'ON has arisen. For, it seems, that no matter what decision is taken â€" even the complete destruction of the universe â€" a choice is always made, and from that choice, an alternate possibility appears and becomes its own reality.

Something that Johnny has yet to learn to accept.

And he is not the only one.

Talvas has also survived the devastation, much to his deep and abiding fury.

Those who were once the Undying are now the gods, and before they can begin to try to understand the true nature of the universe, they must first adjust to their new situation.

Now the Citadel is a part of the world. The former Undying and the dwellers of the Citadel are, once more, contemporaries and equals. New gods in the new world. And new rivals.

But everything is different now, soon the time of the gods will be over and Johnny and all the new gods will shortly go the way of the old, leaving the worlds to the domination of mortals and the new Undying.

In the meantime, Jez dedicates herself to luring Johnny from his obsession with Talvas, by giving him a new obsession â€" the love of a good woman.

But will she, in the end, be able to hold him back indefinitely, or will Johnny's obsessive inclinations eventually develop into an uncontrollable mania that will lead him to, once more, seek the obliteration, not only of the worlds, but of the infinite itself and all it contains, in order to halt, finally and forever, the repeating patterns of eternity?