The Lost Continent

After twenty years in the Yucatan, Deucalion returns to Atlantis expecting the empire he remembers. What he finds is a court transformed: a new Viceroy rules at the pleasure of the ambitious Empress Phorenice, and the old order crumbles under political intrigue. The homecoming becomes a reckoning, with a empire that has forgotten him, with bitter memories of the man he once was, and with a power structure that no longer has room for someone of his stature. Hyne writes with the rollicking confidence of early twentieth-century imperial adventure, filling Atlantis with vivid court politics, ancient grandeur, and the particular melancholy of a man who has outlived his own relevance. This is lost-world fiction at its most entertaining: part exotic adventure, part meditation on how empires discard the very men who built them.