Armageddon Rising - Paperback

by S. H. Roddey (Author)

An eternal council. A missing scroll. An old god in search of power.The fate of the world hangs in the balance.At eighteen years old, Lydia St. Clair made a deal with the devil. Three years later, she made a second deal to save her father's life. Now a bounty hunter by trade, she uses her skills to locate missing monsters and find any object Lucifer desires.When she wakes from a memory-based nightmare, she follows the smell of brimstone to her kitchen where she discovers a single clue regarding her next job: a half-burned slip of parchment with the word "Armageddon" scrawled upon it. Lucifer can tell her little about the job except how the Scroll of Damnation, a holy relic prophesized to bring about the end of the world in the Book of Revelation, has been stolen from its home in Odin's vault in Asgard. Gaea's Council, a collection of famous faces throughout the history of mythology, prepares for an apocalyptic war as Lydia begins the hunt for the thief. With a hobgoblin named Nix as a sidekick, a series of gifts from the Council, and her own street smarts, Lydia embarks on an impossible quest and a race against time. If she succeeds in finding the scroll and returning it to the council before all seven seals can be broken, she saves the world. If not...