With In the Shadow of the Gods, Rachel Dunne makes her breathtaking
debut with this first book in a dark epic fantasy trilogy, The Bound
Gods, in which a mismatched band of mortals led by a violent, secretive
man must stand against a pair of resentful gods to save their world.
Eons ago, a pair of gods known as the Twins grew powerful in the world
of Fiatera, until the Divine Mother and Almighty Father exiled them,
binding them deep in the earth. But the price of keeping the fire lands
safe is steep. To prevent these young gods from rising again, all twins
in the land must be killed at birth, a safeguard that has worked until
now.
Trapped for centuries, the Twins are gathering their latent powers to
break free and destroy the Parents for their tyranny--to set off a fight
between two generations of gods for control of the world and the mortals
who dwell in it.
When the gods make war, only one side can be victorious. Joros, a
mysterious and cunning priest, has devised a dangerous plan to win. Over
eight years, he gathers a team of disparate fighters--Scal, a lost and
damaged swordsman from the North; Vatri, a scarred priestess who claims
to see the future in her fires; Anddyr, a drug-addled mage wandering
between sanity and madness; and Rora and Aro, a pair of twins who have
secretly survived beyond the reach of the law.
These warriors must learn to stand together against the unfathomable
power of vengeful gods, to stop them from tearing down the sun . . . and
plunging their world into darkness.
