From the award-winning author of Above the Ashes comes an epic fantasy, winner of a Marcom Award and RONE nominee from InD’tale Magazine. A cruel sorceress and her assassins pursue Marisylia Malludar to steal a holy artifact that grants incredible physical and magical power. Religious fanatics, volatile and unstable in their blind faith, also seek Marisylia to exploit the holy artifact’s most dangerous purpose—liberating the erratic Creator of the world, Lysielle, from her 1,000-year incarceration. With the artifact the key to Lysielle’s freedom, Marisylia must survive long enough to find Lysielle first. Then her most grim challenge awaits—deciding if the Creator has truly repented for attempting to destroy all life. To achieve global peace, Marisylia must discover faith in the unpredictable Lysielle or rely on her own instincts to set the world’s fate.