Series: Atlantis Legacy # 1
Format: Kindle, 328 pages
Release Date: November 1, 2019
Publisher: Lindsey Fairleigh
Source: Kindle Unlimited
Genre: Fantasy / Mythology
Some secrets are buried for a reason. She’s about to uncover the deadliest secret of all...
Anxious
and reclusive, Cora Blackthorn uses online gaming as her sole tether to
the outside world. Due to a condition that makes human touch crippling,
she lives her life confined to a small island in the Puget Sound, never
accompanying her mother on her tomb-raiding adventures. But when her
mom sends home a cryptic SOS in the form of a mysterious package, Cora
discovers the shocking truth behind her extraordinary affliction. Her
condition isn’t an illness; it’s a gift not of this world.
Armed
with a powerful, alien amulet and her mother’s journal, Cora heads to
Rome on a desperate rescue mission. But on the way, she discovers that a
secret society is hot on her trail, and she has no chance of outrunning
them. Her only chance is to confront them head on. A clash within the
twisty catacombs beneath Vatican City leaves Cora with a perilous
choice: find her way through an ancient, deadly labyrinth and save her
mom, or fail and die…
Author Lindsey
Fairleigh's Legacy of the Lost is the first book in the authors Atlantis
Legacy sci-fi adventure series. If you like ancient mysteries, Greek
mythology, treasure-hunting adventurers, and dynamic characters, then you’ll
love this exhilarating adventure. I'd compare this story to Lara Croft meets
Indiana Jones meets Stargate. 26-year old Cora Blackthorn is a
prisoner of her own body and mind. Raised by her archaeologist mother Diana Crane,
she’s rarely left the island due to her condition. Whenever she touches someone,
she immediately falls unconscious.
Cora lives vicariously through virtual reality with her online friend, Fiona. But, when her mother who has been missing for 11 days sends her a package from Rome, Cora’s world unravels. Cora learns she’s apparently not human, but a member of the ancient Atlantean race that Diana carried to term and raised as her own. In the package are items that Diana felt Cora would need to help with her episodes. A golden teardrop necklace and an orb filled with mysterious liquid and a letter.
“I’m so sorry. These should help. You won’t have to live in fear anymore. I wish I’d figured this out sooner. Everything could have been so much easier for you. Better late than never, I hope. I’m sorry, sweetie. I love you.”
Cora may very well be
the last living member of species that came to Earth thousands of years before
humanity existed. To make matters worse, there is a group known as Custodes
Veritatis, aka The Guardians of the Truth, who would do anything to get their hands-on
Cora for their own research and whatever else they can come up with. Things
really heat up when her own home is invaded, and she is forced to flee with
Raiden from San Juan Islands, eventually making their way to Italy while hiding
from the Custodes Veritatis. While finding Diana is the most important thing
for Cora, getting answers about her own existence is really what this book is
about.
Parts of this book are told through the eyes of Persephone who was apparently an Amazon Warrior. Persephone is also in Cora’s head which allows the reader to get a better understanding at who Persephone is and why we should care. Cora learns a lot from Persephone including how to fight using martial arts as well as her staff. Ancient secrets below the Vatican, a group within of highly specialized people searching for Atlantean information that will stop at nothing to gain it and now Cora, a connection to a long dead Amazonian Warrior, and bad ass Doru staff which you can see on the cover, and a labyrinth of twists and turns and surprises as well as a betrayal you probably will see coming if you pay close attention to the hints the authors lays out for you.
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