Description
The Devoted Lands was once home to many gods: Salt, Stone, Storm, Green, Shadow. Now, after centuries of devastating wars, only Tempestra-Innara, the Eternal Flame, remains.
Conscripted as a child, Lys, potentiate of the Dawn Cloister, is outwardly a loyal servant to her goddess. If she harbors impossible dreams of deicide, that's her business. But when a routine heretical execution erupts into a near-fatal assassination attempt on Tempestra-Innara, Lys sees a glimmer of hope for her freedom.
Lys is chosen to hunt down the heretics and find an ancient reliquary that holds the power to kill a god. Annoyingly, she's not alone. Paired with Nolan, a potentiate from a rival cloister who is as pious as he is determined, Lys must feign devotion if she hopes to keep her own heretical thoughts hidden and god-killing ambitions within reach.
As they pursue a dangerous network of heretics linked to the assassination, Lys uncovers a world brimming with more possibility-and peril-than she ever anticipated.
About the Author
Lyndsay Ely is an author of science fiction and fantasy across YA and adult categories. Her debut, Gunslinger Girl, was a YA genre-bent dystopian Western. She has also published an Overwatch tie-in novel, Deadlock Rebels, is a contributor to Overwatch 2: Heroes Ascendant: An Overwatch Story Collection, and is currently working on an upcoming interactive adventure novel for Five Nights at Freddy's: Escape the Pizzaplex. She currently resides in Boston.
Reviews
"Fun, irreverent, and propulsive. Ely creates an oppressive theocratic world populated by dodgy gods and fascinating mortals. This is the start of an explosive series!" -- T. L. Huchu, author of The Library of the Dead
"Action-packed and original, The Lost Reliquary is a riveting adventure set in a brutal world of religious oppression. Lys's struggles to manage past trauma and a long-buried hatred of the very power she's sworn to serve gripped me from the very first page." -- M. H. Ayinde, author of A Song of Legends Lost
Book Information
ISBN 9781668080313
Author Lyndsay Ely
Format Paperback
Page Count 464
Imprint Saga Press
Publisher Simon & Schuster
Series Divine Thrall
Weight(grams) 310g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 29mm