Harry Potter meets The Terminator with this action-packed experience about a son who discovers that everything he believed about his globe is a lie.

The year is 2120. The humans are dead. The mages have retreated from your world after a madman blew up civilization with weaponized marvelous technology. Safe within domes that protect them from your nuclear wasteland on the other hand, the mages have spent the last century putting their lives back together.

Nikolai is enthusiastic about artifacts approximately Mage Against the device from twentieth-century human existence: mage-crafted reproduction Chuck Taylors on his ft, Schwarzenegger posters on his walls, Beatlemania still alive and well in his head. But he’s also tasked with an increased calling—to keep the Veils that secure mage-kind in the hazards of the wastes beyond. Being a cadet in the Mage Ruler’s army, Nik offers finally discovered what he usually wanted—an objective. But when confronted by one of his former instructors gone rogue, Nik tumbles right into a dark key. The humans weren’t nuked into oblivion—they’re still alive. Not only that, beyond your domes a war rages between your last enclaves of free humans and huge machine intelligences.

Beyond your dome, unprepared and on the run, Nik finds Jem. Jem is a Runner for the Human being Level of resistance. A ballerina-turned-soldier with the circumstances of war, Jem is more than just a individual—her cybernetic enhancement mods make her faster, smarter, and so are the only things that give her a fighting possibility against the artificial beings bent on mankind’s eradication.

Right now Nik faces an impossible decision: part with the mages and permit humanity die out? Or stand with Jem as well as the human beings—and risk endangering everything he understands and loves?