Thaleia Metridi has devoted her life to preserving the past.
As a scholar of the great bibliotheca of Praevia, she has spent decades safeguarding the histories of gods, dragons, and mortals beneath the watchful eye of Ydea, Goddess of Knowledge and Sacred Record. But when war erupts among the gods and the bibliotheca falls, Thaleia discovers something far more terrifying than the destruction of everything she loves.
The gods are being devoured.
And something is using what remains of them to reach the mortal world.
Eryxis, the God of Ruin and Rebirth, knows exactly what hunts them. He also knows survival may require destroying the very things Thaleia has sworn to protect. Arrogant, merciless, and infuriatingly certain he's right, Eryxis should represent everything she despises.
Instead, Thaleia discovers there is more to ruin than destruction—and far more to Eryxis than the god she believed him to be.
And Eryxis, who has watched civilizations rise and fall, finds himself captivated by a mortal woman who refuses to fear him.
As an ancient hunger spreads through sacred places and mortal worshippers alike, Thaleia is drawn deeper into a war humanity was never meant to fight. Her devotion becomes a weapon. Her heart becomes another thing she cannot bear to lose. And stopping a god who consumes gods may demand a sacrifice neither she nor Eryxis is prepared to make.
Because some things cannot be saved by preserving them.
Sometimes, survival begins with ruin.
Genre: Fantasy
As a scholar of the great bibliotheca of Praevia, she has spent decades safeguarding the histories of gods, dragons, and mortals beneath the watchful eye of Ydea, Goddess of Knowledge and Sacred Record. But when war erupts among the gods and the bibliotheca falls, Thaleia discovers something far more terrifying than the destruction of everything she loves.
The gods are being devoured.
And something is using what remains of them to reach the mortal world.
Eryxis, the God of Ruin and Rebirth, knows exactly what hunts them. He also knows survival may require destroying the very things Thaleia has sworn to protect. Arrogant, merciless, and infuriatingly certain he's right, Eryxis should represent everything she despises.
Instead, Thaleia discovers there is more to ruin than destruction—and far more to Eryxis than the god she believed him to be.
And Eryxis, who has watched civilizations rise and fall, finds himself captivated by a mortal woman who refuses to fear him.
As an ancient hunger spreads through sacred places and mortal worshippers alike, Thaleia is drawn deeper into a war humanity was never meant to fight. Her devotion becomes a weapon. Her heart becomes another thing she cannot bear to lose. And stopping a god who consumes gods may demand a sacrifice neither she nor Eryxis is prepared to make.
Because some things cannot be saved by preserving them.
Sometimes, survival begins with ruin.
Genre: Fantasy
Used availability for Misty D Waters's A Ruin of Dragonflies