Grand Prize Winner in the 2020 NGIBA for Fiction. Winner of the 2019 Epic Fantasy Fanatics Readers Choice Awards. "The high-stakes plot, fast pacing, and convincing characters will hook epic fantasy readers on this impressive debut... Great for fans of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, R. Scott Bakker’s Prince of Nothing series." - Booklife Reviews Five hundred years ago the world shattered, banishing the gods from the Sister Continents and stealing the memories of the mortal peoples in an event known as the Great Forgetting. In 17 days the stars will align, and a religious cabal will summon the gods back to the realms of men. In the northern tundra priests search the Steaming Lakes, a place tormented by the Wakened Dead. Deep in the mountains, demonic shadows assail priests at a holy shrine. In the south, the clans know something foul is afoot, and dispatch warriors to seek answers, but instead they find horrors. A young priestess named Eliles stands in the heart of this conspiracy; on her shoulders rest decisions which could prevent a holy war or demonic genocide. Through lies, manipulation, and murder, everyone is on a 17-day march to fulfill or defy prophecy; the world will end or begin anew, come the Eve of Snows.

Meliu survived the horrors at the Shrine of Burdenis, her scalp mangled by the Taken, but she braved her soul's eternity to rescue holy tomes. Escorted by Ivin Choerkin and the wardens, she found the legendary Codex of Sol, a book thought destroyed by the Clan Choerkin centuries ago. The Codex once brought holy war with its forbidden prophecies; its pages once again seem poised to change the destiny of a people. Seven days before the Eve of Snows, Meliu returned the Codex of Sol to Istinjoln Monastery. Six days later, Lord Priest Ulrikt entrusted her with a missive intended for a High Priest in Choerkin Fost. She departed soon after with Jinbin, three ponies, and two kegs of ale. An energy surges from the monastery not long after they ride from its gates, and the chill it brings to her bones is all too familiar: A Celestial Gate summoning demonic Shadows. She rides hard for Choerkin Fost, believing the message she bears is vital to the survival of her people, but on arriving no one meets her to take Ulrikt's message. Per the Lord Priest's orders, she opens the scroll. The command is shocking in its simplicity and intended for her all along: Flee Kaludor.

20% Off through June 26th! Regularly $9.99. Murder came to the lords of the Silone Clans upon the Eve of Snows, and the survivors scattered to the sea in a desperate journey to safety. The Silone surrendered Kaludor, their island and home, to the demonic Shadows of Man and the Taken they possess. Eliles and the twenty souls who stayed behind on Herald’s Watch, surrounded by a tower of impenetrable fire, find they are not alone. Ivin, along with other surviving Silone lords, negotiate a desperate peace with the Hidreng of the Hundred Nations, a bargain which could cost his people the Seven Heavens and forfeit his soul. Solineus travels to bargain a treaty with the Edan of the Mother Wood to protect the Silone from the Hidreng. His journey will return him to the frozen Treaty Lands and the Tomb of the Touched. Meliu once again holds the Codex of Sol, and even as she questions her faith in the gods, she finds that her prayers have their She’s more powerful than she ever imagined, but it’s a power with a terrible risk. The Silone people are desperate for peace, desperate for food and shelter to survive the coming winter. What they desire is to return victorious to their homeland, but their hope and refuge lies at the end of a path which will leave their dead burning behind The Trail of Pyres.

Solineus rises from the drowning waters a second time, saved by the hand of a new Morik of the Eight Kingdoms. Driven from his homeland by the demonic Shadows of Man, Solineus helped lead his people to a new frontier and the hope for peace, but this victory is one he won't be able to A new life with his adopted daughters will have to wait.The Lady from the Blue won't tell him who he used to be, but promises to show him who he is, and who he will become, if he will bend to her will one more time.Solineus' pilgrimage will take him along the Holy Foundations of the Dragonspan Mountains, to the heights of mighty peaks, and to the depths of the deepest caves, as he sets the stones in the road to peace with the Kingdomers. His is a journey of dangers and discoveries, but only when he reaches the Gulf of Volgrâhar will he find his final destination and come face to face with himself.

The Silone clans survived to reach the Dragonspan Mountains bloodied but full of hope, but as wars end in the Tek Kingdoms, old enemies rise. In the Eliles struggles to make sense of a murder on Herald's Watch and discovers that she and her people are less alone than they ever imagined. Pikarn navigates the river to reach an island closer to Istinjoln, but finds a Broldun nemesis certain to make him re-earn the name Wolverine. In the Warlord Ivin Choerkin eyes the Tek Nations to the north as prayers for peace fade to war, but in the southern forests a new and mysterious foe rises. Meliu and Polus Broldun lead an army south to a pyramid known as Green Mountain to rescue Rinold and his patrol who were captured by a people known only as the yellow-eyes. But Green Mountain is a devil's rise where death awaits. Kinesee finds life as the Warlord Choerkin's bride exhilarating as she strives to earn military aid from the Eight Kingdoms and the Helelindin, but as she proves her worth, the more the Heretics of Rin want her dead. Solineus has discovered that Clan Emudar is alive and well but thousands of horizons from being any help. He sets out to reunite the clans, but along the way will find clues to his past and an Impossible Son. All roads in the south are bloody and lead to the lost mountain of Tomarok, where in the Age of God Wars the King Priests of Sol were crowned.