Conn has spent his life as a weapon of the Iron Thorn, trained to track down warlocks and burn out heresy wherever it festers. He believes in order. He believes in duty. He believes the gods of old are dead.

He is wrong.

When a captured warlock dies whispering of ancient relics and a rising power, Conn is sent beyond the empire’s borders to stop a threat that should not exist. Instead, he finds Garyn.

Garyn’s home has been razed to ash. Enslaved and torn from everything he loves, he carries a secret buried in his bloodline. An old god is waking, and it has chosen him.

Forced into an uneasy alliance, hunter and fugitive must cross wastelands, evade imperial soldiers, and descend into a ruined temple where something vast waits beneath stone and bone. Behind them, the empire closes in. Ahead lies a ritual that could shatter the world.

Faith will be tested. Empires will fall. And when the fire is finally called, neither of them will walk away unchanged.