Goddess (Nexus 4)

Goddess (the First Betrayal) the fourth volume of the Nexus: The Living Prophet of the House of All Faith, Thomas Lewis, has Transcended having defeated the Third and Greatest of All Satans. Two weeks after his passing, his telepathic, telekinetic niece, Gemma Lewis, is left to mourn his death, that of her sister, Tamsin, and that of her guardian angel, Zhara, who passes onto her the daunting mantle of Ormuzd.

Despite a supremely hostile media, the House maintains that Gemma is also a Living Prophet and as tension and national and international pressures mount, the Prime Minister directs the Home Office pathologists to seize the body of Tamsin Lewis for scientific study.

Gemma Lewis has no choice but to accept her strange destiny as once again, her family and their friends, including the tormented psychic, Siobhan O'Grady, are pursued by mobs, the media, foreign agents, cultists and the fascist Citizens' Party who descend upon the town.

Siobhan foresees the attempt to seize the body but her vision has been corrupted by the Design which now seeks to restore the Divine Balance by betraying and killing the young goddess, her family and their friends - unless she can defy the army, the media, the Government... and the Will of the Creator. Ghosts walk the streets as the cameras and the armoured vehicles roll in...

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