![]() ![]() Meanwhile, a dark god, Miasmus, is stirring. ![]() In order for the next crop of rhamanthus seeds to be quickened, so it is foretold, Zariya must wed a foreigner. Khai, born at the same time as Azarkal’s youngest daughter, princess Zariya, is her shadow, a sort of predestined soul mate, trained in the deep desert by a warrior sect to serve and protect her by any means necessary-yet there is one astounding truth he has not been told. However, the goddess Anamuht the Purging Fire hasn’t quickened any for many years, and soon they will run out. The rulers of the desert kingdom of Zarkhoum, King Azarkal and his too-numerous, scheming, treacherous family, owe their extended lives to the effect of rhamanthus seeds. Long ago, the stars grew quarrelsome and rebellious, until Zar the Sun, exasperated, booted them from the heavens to dwell on the Earth as gods-not too bad an exile, seemingly. Carey ( Miranda and Caliban, 2017, etc.) returns to doorstopper-land with this stand-alone heroic fantasy set in a world whose sky is empty of stars. ![]()
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