The Ninth Pantheon, Book One

Chapters

Act 1: The Night He Died

1. Cold Entry 2. The Hall of Competing Claims 3. The Shade in the Tunnel 4. Dundas Street, Midnight 5. The Bell in the Basement 6. What Fire Does to Paper 7. Blood Consulate Scouts 8. The Angel Who Filed a Report 9. Madam Zhao's Back Room 10. The Man Who Crossed Water

Act 2: The First Rule

11. Everything That Looks Like a Gift 12. The Name You Give Away 13. General Huang Qilin 14. The Lab on the Lakeshore 15. What It Takes to Command the Dead 16. Seven Believers 17. Cassiel's Disobedience 18. The First Doctrine 19. Tim Hortons, 3 AM 20. Magistrate Shen Reads the File 21. The Death That Wasn't an Accident 22. His Mother's Text

Act 3: The Between

23. Dinner in Yorkville 24. The Body on the Table 25. Thirty Seconds Before He Signs 26. One Message 27. No 28. The Mercenary Dead 29. Huang Qilin Goes to War 30. Breath Drain 31. What Varro Actually Believes 32. Rosa Chen-Varro 33. The Houseless Daughter

Act 4: The Records Hall

34. Underground, by Permission 35. The Records Hall 36. The Altered Line 37. Clerk Feng Qiao 38. What a Filing Clerk Can Do 39. The Ninth Pantheon 40. The Seed Cracks Open 41. Everything That Felt the Shift 42. Shen Makes an Arrest 43. The Evidence Is Sealed

Act 5: The First Shrine

44. The Thing Goes Viral 45. Lily Burns Incense 46. The Anchor Holds 47. He Does Not Appear 48. The Summons (All of Them)49. The Counter-Condition 50. What Comes Next