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Has a lot of promise. But needed at least one more hard edit.

Atlantis falls and the (apparently all white) survivors move to Nantucket. They have built a complicated feudal-inflected society where people, or at least their leaders, are apparently organized around the major arcana of the tarot. If there's some deeper mythic meaning, it escaped me.

Our main character, Rune, is the only survivor of a brutal massacre of The Sun Court. The night of the massacre, he was brutally gang raped by masked men and barely survived. Once he comes to his own, he's going to be incredibly powerful. Right now, he's The Tower's odd jobs man. There's lots of hints that he's the Chosen One, but right now he's a pretty, violent, traumatized man who sometimes has to pawn family heirlooms to pay the cable bill.

The Tower hires Rune to find Addam, one of the children of Justice. Wackiness ensues.

There were way too many characters for me to keep straight, almost all of them terribly privileged white boys posturing at each other. There was a lot of world building I didn't understand. I checked several times to see if this was a sequel.

Rune's not a hero, and not a villain. He could be much worse than he is. There's a germ of an interesting story here about a dysfunctional society full of powerful people willing to treat others as things.

But it didn't quite gel for me. No one's motives made sense, and despite the mythological trappings, it didn't seem like it was playing on the deeper levels, which is a waste of a good tarot inspired story. Plus, way too many white boys.