When the gods want to kill you, where can you hide?
Noetos has an artefact that everyone wants, and some will pursue him forever to get it. Now reunited with his children, he escapes up the coast, chased by other powerful forces ... forces who are intent on his destruction at any cost.
Meanwhile, Lenares becomes leader of the Cosmographers after her mistress Mahudia is killed. Lenares has a particular affinity with numbers and she senses something very wrong in the world. Trained to read the presence of the Gods in the landscape, she can find no evidence of the Father ... but how is it even possible that he could be dead?
And Stella discovers that Husk’s plans are far more complex than any of them can imagine ...
Praise for Russell Kirkpatrick
‘a massive and absorbing saga’ The Age
‘a must-read for lovers of quest fantasy’ Canberra Times
‘Awe-inspiring world building … gripping storytelling’ Trudi Canavan, author of The Magicians’ Guild

About the Author:

Russell Kirkpatrick's love of literature and a chance encounter with fantasy novels as a teenager opened up a vast number of possibilities to him. He realised that he could combine storytelling with his interest in mapmaking in the one project. He hasn't looked back since …