Unchained God: Volume III

The weapon woke up. And remembered everything it had done.

The truth is loose in the world now, riding the empire's own machines out into the dark. The Symmetry Council is learning that a lie a thousand years old cannot be recalled like a faulty shipment.

Romana has buried the man who raised her. What's left is a man who is finally, catastrophically himself again, every suppressed memory returned at once, every erased execution restored to him in full, and the exact weight of whose blood is on his hands.

Across the wastes, a blind elder leads the survivors of a burned village toward the fortress that took everything from them. No army. No weapons. Only a refusal to be scattered.

And beneath the Ziggurat, in the dark under the foundations, someone the Council executed seven years ago is still working.

This is where the oldest lie in the world meets the one thing it could never account for. Where a machine that wanted a soul finds out what one costs. Where a woman the living have always flinched from decides, at last, what she is.

The full trilogy is written and finished. Volume III runs straight through to the end.