Wreckers Gate: Book One of The Devastation Wars

The axe Wulf Rome found in the cave seemed the answer to his prayers. With it he brought down the walls of Thrikyl and won a crown. But in taking the axe he cracked an ancient prison built by the gods to hold one of their own. Now Melekath returns to the world to seek his revenge, and there is no one to stand against him: the gods who imprisoned him have all fled... Netra is a young, idealistic Tender, consumed by her desperate faith in a goddess who abandoned her Order centuries before. In her, the long-lost powers of the Tenders are beginning to reawaken and she vows to sacrifice anything to stop Melekath and save the land. Quylock is Rome’s adviser, a bitter, enigmatic man who will pay any price to claim the power he believes is his birthright, even if it means going into the dreaded Pente Akka, where the cost of failure is worse than death. Nalene is FirstMother of the Tenders of Xochitl, a ruthless woman who will stop at nothing to restore the scorned Tenders to their former glory. She believes that the ageless man who appears out of nowhere, offering her the power to fight a god, is the answer to her prayers. All of them are about to learn that the war which consumes their world has more players – and far higher stakes – than they imagine…