The Kingdoms of Dust

The world drowned. The punishment did not.Cain wakes in mud, and the world he built is gone.The water has taken the city, the graves, and everyone who knew his name. What it did not take is the hunger, or the mark, or the years that refuse to end.So he walks into the new world as a stranger, and for the first time nobody recoils. Men are raising towers, inventing kings, cutting laws into clay, and building gods out of dust. Cain works beside them under borrowed names and watches his own story harden into a legend that gets almost everything wrong.But his blood survived the flood in other bodies, and the Line is spreading. Some of his descendants are worshipping what he is. Others are hunting it.Then, in a province of an empire that has never heard of him, a teacher is executed and does not stay dead, and Cain finally hears the only answer he has ever wanted.Book II of The First Exile Trilogy, a mythic dark fantasy for readers of literary vampire fiction and biblical retellings. Begin with Exile from Eden.