For three hundred years the wild island of Croi´ has been beholden to the Empire of the Answering.

Clans have been subjugated, their language outlawed, their religion reduced to a whisper of fugitive priests. Until one day, the island's prayers are answered. The Gods return.

In their way, the dispossessed and vengeful struggle for power. A ruthless priestess rallies the faithful, offering a simple choice - believe, or die - while the Empire's Queen makes the first move in a long and dangerous game. Yet one woman will decide their fate .

. . Sister Wake, unwilling saint of the Goddess of Death.