Shower of Stones
β Scribed by Zachary Jernigan
- Publisher
- Night Shade Books, an imprint of Start Publishing
- Year
- 2014;2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 245 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1597805777
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
The follow-up to Zachary Jernigan's critically-acclaimed literary debut No Return. At the moment of his greatest victory, before a crowd of thousands, the warrior Vedas Tezul renounced his faith, calling for revolt against the god Adrash, imploring mankind to unite in this struggle. Good intentions count for nothing. In the three months since his sacrilegious pronouncement, the world has not changed for the better. In fact, it is now on the verge of dying. The Needle hangs broken in orbit above Jeroun, each of its massive iron spheres poised to fall and blanket the planet's surface in dust. Long-held truces between Adrashi and Anadrashi break apart as panic spreads. With no allegiance to either side, the disgraced soldier Churls walks into the divided city of Danoor with a simple plan: murder the monster named Fesuy Amendja, and retrieve from captivity the only two individuals that still matter to herβVedas Tezul, and the constructed man Berun. The simple plan goes awry, as...
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