The Spider in the Laurel (Rafael Ward Book 1)

Description

Rafael Ward is a historian. In his America, where all religions have been outlawed, historians destroy artifacts rather than preserve them. While attempting to obtain illegal relics from the black market, Ward meets MacKenzie, a notorious terrorist on the trail of a Dark Age vase she believes will free the world from tyranny.

Posing as an outlaw, Ward tags along with MacKenzie, but he is soon betrayed by his government, which hopes to use the vase’s power to expand its domination. His only chance to survive is to come clean with MacKenzie and together find the vase first. But the relic isn’t what they thought, and the truth may shatter the world.