This title offers a stunning mix of magic, adventure, and fantasy that will have you hooked from the very first page. In a land where gods walk the hills and goddesses rise from rivers, lakes, and springs, veteran caravan-guard Holla-Sayan stops to help an abandoned child and a dying dog. The girl, though, is the incarnation of Attalissa, goddess of Lissavakail, and her dog not a canine companion but a shape-changing guardian spirit. Possessed and driven half-mad by the shape-changing Blackdog, Holla-Sayan flees across the world, trailing necromancers, treachery, massacres, rebellions, and even dead gods in his wake. But an even greater force hunts Holla-Sayan and Attalissa, one that could spell their doom...