The Voidkeeper (The Aethercode Series Book 3)

Control of the Aether has shifted. The voids are opening. Ancient power is falling into new hands.In THE MASK OF SPH!NX, Ari and Shauna discovered a mask that illuminates Emport’s lost history and missing magic. Ari and her friends endured strained loyalties and sudden losses as they witnessed the return of something dangerous to Emport. After escaping to a subterranean world filled with living machines and fiery cave creatures on a quest to help a friend, Ari is hoping to return to her studies, her friends, and a life that feels normal. She believes if she acts with conscience, good results will follow, but that belief is about to be tested.Emport is changing. Stratus is under new management, and its methods are destabilizing old systems of control. Beneath winter’s shroud, the dead Hologardens is being remade. A new world is rising from the ashes of the old, and everyone in Emport knows who to thank for its creation. Lily, the rising star of Stratus, is rewriting systems to direct power into users’ waiting hands. She’s becoming famous, and Emport worships her for her talents.But Lily isn’t working alone. A mysterious figure known only as the Voidkeeper has been enlisted by the Chief Administrator to help Lily throw wide open the doors of power and prestige and sow chaos across the Aether. A scramble for power is inevitable, and Ari’s belief in her own choices is about to be put to the ultimate test. Clashes between user factions start when a new Aether-bending app is placed in everyone’s hands. Alliances and rivalries form as Ari and Shauna try to navigate this new Emport and preserve a lost reality that is being poached and pillaged. As they race against agents and users of Stratus, the ultimate question looms over every choice they make: Are they shaping the Aether, or is it shaping them? Magic of the past is colliding with the technology of the present, and if no one resists, the most ruthless stand to reap the biggest reward.The time of the Voidkeeper has come.The Voidkeeper is the third book in the Aethercode series, a genre-defying blend of techno-magic, myth, and adventure. This emotionally rich sci-fantasy dives deep into a world where reality can be reprogrammed, the soul of a society can be rewritten, and the soul of one individual can shape the future. Read more