Showing results by narrator "Nico Evers-Swindell" in Teen & Young Adult

They take the names of madmen because madness is their fate. They descend into the tiny places, down where the mites leap and the lymphocytes ooze and the spark of human reason fires like lightning from sizzling neurons. Down in the meat. One by one they join the fight. In the macro, in the nano, in both at once, they fight for life, liberty and the inalienable right to be crazy.

The entire BZRK cell, including Noah and Sadie, have been left in pieces after the last round of battle with the Armstrong twins, conjoined brothers who plot to rob mankind of its free will. Vincent's mind is shattered, but his memories hold dangerous secrets and Lear, BZRK's mysterious leader, will stop at nothing to protect those secrets. Meanwhile, Bug Man has taken control of the President's brain, but playing with sanity is a dangerous game. The consequences can spiral way out of control, and the Armstrong twins are not people Bug Man can afford to disappoint.

Imagine an alternate universe where romance and technology reign. Where tinkerers and dreamers craft and recraft a world of automatons, ornate clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that. Where scientists and schoolgirls, fair folk and Romans, intergalactic bandits, and intrepid orphans - decked out in corsets, clockwerk suits, and tall black boots - solve dastardly crimes, escape from monstrous predicaments, consult oracles, and hover over volcanoes in steam-powered airships.