The first volume of the Forgotten Gods Tales comes to life in the vein of the Malazan Book of the Fallen, the Safehold series, and a Song of Fire and Ice. Written by combat veteran turned author Christian Warren Freed, this long sweeping story covers a universe plunged into civil war. Good and evil are relative concepts. Most people just want to survive.

It is a troubled time, for the old gods are returning and they want the universe back...

Under the rigid guidance of the Conclave, the seven hundred known worlds carve out a new empire with the compassion and wisdom the gods once offered. But a terrible secret, known only to the most powerful, threatens to undo three millennia of progress. The gods are not dead at all. They merely sleep. And they are being hunted.

Senior Inquisitor Tolde Breed is sent to the planet Crimeat to investigate the escape of one of the deadliest beings in the history of the universe: Amongeratix, one of the fabled THREE, sons of the god-king. Tolde arrives on a world where heresy breeds insurrection and war is only a matter of time. Aided by Sister Abigail of the Order of Blood Witches, and a company of Prekhauten Guards, Tolde hurries to find Amongeratix and return him to Conclave custody before he can restart his reign of terror.

What he doesn't know is that the Three are already operating on Crimeat.