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Ghost in the Skull by CynthiaNixon
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
14 Aug 2025
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Gideon Nav, the greatest running back Milvian Bridge Academy has ever seen, has been prophesied by the Pope of the Eternal City to be a great warrior, destined for sainthood, in the Crusades.
But after becoming haunted while scavenging the Old City for old hard drives, she finds herself trying to manage calculus and football, hiding the malevolent entity haunting her, and pulling at clues to her parents origin as they shed light on the collapse of civilization and the rise of a theocratic society in the ruins of New York City.
This is a cyberpunk, climatepunk post-apocalyptic military dictatorship catholic high school football NYC machine politics hacker exorcism canon divergence love story AU taking place in a New York where Jod didn’t blow up the world, but it was ravaged by climate change, nuclear wars, and a necromantic uprising anyways. Just let it happen.