Sky of Water (Equal Night Trilogy, Book 3) by Stacey L. Tucker

Release date: May 12, 2020

Subgenre: Contemporary Fantasy, Romantic Fantasy

About Sky of Water:

 

This final installment of the Equal Night trilogy will put Skylar to her biggest test to date. After Magus takes her through the alchemical door in the Quine library, she quickly remembers her strange surroundings and the reason she’s been brought back to the First Age. Here, she will have to rely on her own magic to navigate the overlapping timelines that will allow her to rewrite history. But if she’s not careful, she could destroy it completely.

Back home, it will take every one of Skylar’s loved ones to execute Ocean’s plan, and Argan has the biggest role among them: the impossible task of retrieving Skylar home from the past. Luckily, it’s something he’s been training for his entire life.

Meanwhile, a woman now sits in the Oval Office, the corrupt scaffolding of the US government collapsing around her. Mica Noxx has a vision for the US, one that returns it to the original intention of the Founding Fathers.

With Skylar held in the First Age and Mica planted in current day, they have one shot to banish the darkness that’s held control for centuries, and return the United States to a trajectory toward its true destiny: becoming the New Atlantis.

 

Excerpt:

 

Vivienne DeClaire’s apartment sat perched precariously over the lapping waves of the Mediterranean. An ancient, gnarled pine clung tenaciously to the exposed face. It hadn’t yet decided to succumb to the sea. Vivienne’s marble deck now hung completely over the side of the cliff. She had made Bari, Italy, her home after the First Age, when more land surfaced after the Great Flood. Good memories had soaked into the land there. She had only wanted to remember the good. But now she looked out at the stunted shore beneath her and saw the painful ones returning. Ghostly, black, crab-like creatures crawled out of the sea at a snail’s pace. Their slow speed made their return that much worse, prolonging the inevitable. They had been waiting, as all painful memories do, in the churning, deep, dark water of the ocean. They were messengers from the primordial deep, and Vivienne was now faced with a choice she thought only applied to humans: act or react. She already knew she had waited too long to act.

The earth was experiencing remarkably swift changes that no scientist could explain away with global warming. Beatrice, the Great Mother of Air, was to blame for some of them. She hadn’t limited her wrath to the US. Many of the shores of Europe had been coated in silt. Now a light gray color, the beaches couldn’t hide their sadness. The shadow of humanity had been drawn out of the protection of the ocean and washed up like a tidal wave of beached sea life. It was forcing mankind to look at its own darkness.

Ocean, Great Mother of Fire, had to take responsibility as well. Fire was volatile, and volatile energy was escaping the earth’s core through volcanic activity. Volcanoes were surprisingly more easily dealt with than the quiet migration of the rising tide. The sea was just like Vivienne, Great Mother of Water—reserved and commanding, yet lethal when necessary. Nothing could stop raging water.

But all of the earth changes couldn’t be blamed on the Mothers. The greatest Mother herself, Gaia, needed to stretch and change. If a house sat where fire or fresh water must flow, so be it. Humans were required to adapt; they could no longer believe the earth was for conquering. Gaia had allowed people to live on her body, and they had proven horrendous stewards.

Natural disasters were the Great Mothers’ way of healing, of purging their personal pain. Although selfish in motive, the disasters always helped collective humanity. It seemed people forgot their pettiness and self-absorbed lives when disaster struck and remembered what life was truly about.

“Beauty always emerges out of destruction,” Vivienne said. “Always.”

 

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About the Equal Night Trilogy:

 

The Equal Night Trilogy is a romantic adventure that speaks to the longing in the hearts of women. Once the Greeks forced their male gods upon the world, the belief in the power of women was severed. For centuries it has been thought that the wisdom of the high priestesses perished at the hand of the patriarchs—but the ancient Book of Sophia, which contains the sacred knowledge needed for the coming age, is out there. And it is looking for Skylar Southmartin. This new adult fantasy series takes our protagonist, Skylar, on a journey through Fire, Air, and Water as she races to fulfill her task: find the Book of Sophia, return the heart of humanity to wholeness, and return the United States to a trajectory toward its true destiny—becoming the New Atlantis. Along the way, she discovers shocking truths about her family, recovers lost love, and, time and again, faces tests of her loyalties, her courage, and her strength of will. A new adult fantasy series that calls on readers to embrace their sexuality and their shadow self,  The Equal Night Trilogy is a tribute to the extraordinary power of mothers, daughters, wives, and women of the twenty-first century—and a reminder that the future depends on the choices we make now.

 

About Stacey L. Tucker:

Stacey L. Tucker uses the action/adventure genre to bridge science and spirituality in her Equal Night series. Tucker’s first book in the trilogy, Ocean’s Fire, took gold at the Living Now Book Awards and she’s looking to make magic again with Book 2, Alchemy’s Air. She has written for Women’s World, Working Mother, and PopSugar, and speaks to teen groups about self-empowerment and awareness in today’s social media–saturated climate.

 

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