ASIN: B011N5XUTI
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 531
It was supposed to be a time of Enlightened reason and peace, but the Paris of 1788 stood on the brink of chaos. Philosophers and laborers forged an unlikely truce, sowing the seeds of bloody civil war.One entity, though, remained aloof from such corporeal bickering: the secretive Order of Philosophes. Those of the Order were dedicated to the study – and manipulation – of the very laws of nature, bending thermal energy, kinetics, gravity and even time itself to their will.When Isaac Teliom was accepted into the Order, he believed his greatest ambitions had been achieved. He could not have known that he would be immersed in the bloody social struggles of the day, nor could he have imagined that betrayal from within would bring the Order itself to the brink of collapse. But what can a mere student hope to accomplish against forces that threaten the upheaval of life as they know it?
