“There are no gods here—only the things they left buried.” After a crash landing on the impossible Isle of Mu, a ragtag team of survivors discovers a landscape riddled with the remnants of dead civilizations, haunted echoes of advanced technology, and creatures twisted by something deeper than time. Jacques Auclair, an allied engineer, just wants to send a distress signal. But the island has other plans. Beside him, U’gah, a primal shaman with a club that hungers for blood. Saturn Chernyak, a traumatized biologist, seeks to understand the DNA-magic fusion infecting the world. Emerald Zugasti, the quiet astrophysicist, sees too much. And Florence—Florence Blackwell is unraveling, fast. At the center of it all is Hyatta Kahlan, a Paragon, bred to embody the best of humanity. But even he is starting to break under the weight of the sun’s betrayal and the horrors buried beneath the soil. When the Axis machine wakes and the Mother’s herald begins to stir, the survivors must ask themselves: Are they the last light before the darkness finishes what it started