Where the Gods Rot

The gods may be watching, but something else is calling, and it is very, very hungry.People go into the swamps behind Lacorme and don't return. Locals call it a bad omen and leave it at that. Malinna isn't willing to.When her eleven-year-old sister vanishes into the wetlands, she's ready to go in alone. That is, until Rauth finds her. Once a fallen champion of the gods, now exiled by the very town he once protected, he's the last person anyone expected to offer help. The swamp took everything from him once and he swore he'd never go back. But Malinna has enough gold to make a liar out of him.The rescue mission quickly turns into a nightmare. The wetlands are riddled with a fungus that doesn't just kill - it changes what it touches, twisting man and beast alike into something that used to be alive. Malinna is terrified of the husks stalking the fog, but she's more terrified of how safe she feels next to Rauth. And Rauth, who swore off feeling anything in this place, is losing that fight too.But the swamp is no place for sweetness. When the infection finally reaches Malinna, it doesn't just bring hallucinations - it wakes something ancient inside her, something that wants to stay. Now she has to decide what she'll burn to save her sister. Maybe even her own future.And as she begins to slip beyond herself, Rauth must decide what he's willing to sacrifice to pull her from the jaws of rot, knowing he may not survive it. And Malinna may not forgive him if he does.

Pagina's: 306, Hardcover, Bone Witch Publishing