The Flame Reborn: Age of Ash Books III & IV

"The fire is out. Let there be peace." - Aric, The Man of Fire The age of gods is over. Ten years after the world broke and remade itself in ash, Aric - once the most feared weapon in creation - grows old in a quiet valley with the woman who saved him. He tends his fields. He buries his dead. He tells his stories to a strange, glowing child who appeared at his door one winter night and called him father. > The age of men rises. And then falls. Nine centuries later, the Crown Quantus Empire has rebuilt the world in perfect, blinding light. Free will is inefficiency. Doubt is malfunction. The Flameborn has been mythologized into a god - his messy, mortal truth buried beneath the roots of a golden tree encased in glass. But buried things do not stay buried. Mira Valeris - Oracle initiate, daughter of the High Synarch, perfect in her compliance - begins to see the cracks. When she finds the testament hidden beneath the roots of Aric's tree, she discovers the truth her Empire has spent a thousand years destroying: that a man once had the power to become a god, and chose not to. > "Gods cannot love, for they cannot lose. Only mortals can love, because only mortals can grieve."

Pagina's: 146, Paperback, Independently published