In a frontier boomtown where divine magic is mined like gold, a people-pleasing scholar is tempted to choose the wrong thing for once.
Talia Salaren is a brilliant scholar and obedient eldest daughter with a bright future decided by everyone but her.
Then she finds a dead god’s salacious journal, and the secrets inside put her on the wrong side of four centuries of false history.
With her life’s work outlawed, Talia flees to the edge of the world, where she walks straight into a trap–a dangerous expedition led by a cult leader who is very good at making people want things they shouldn’t.
He has no interest in studying the gods. He plans to become one.
As Talia and her companions push deeper into godforsaken territory, the myths she was raised to believe begin to fracture — along with the careful version of herself she’s always performed.
The cult leader is wrong. She knows it. For once, she wants to be wrong too.
