Will the dark gods still answer prayers? As a young woman, Nyahri learned hunting and raiding. Now in adulthood, she must make crushing choices of allegiance and family. So she prays to those dark gods, the Atreianii, for guidance. Can they help her? Such gods of fortune and gods of death, worshipped by a hundred tribes, seldom answer prayers. For untold generations they have slept within their subterranean fortresses, their
Citadels,
scattered across the world. When one Citadel explodes, its hellfire lights the sky from horizon to horizon. A single goddess emerges from the ashes, slag, and ruins, and her obsession is to reach the next distant Citadel