War of the Gods

In the aftermath of Contempt of the Gods, Vashtu, Jird, Krul, and Alana dared to believe they might have bought the world a breathing space. Their hard-fought stand against the Karak and their bold gambit to turn aside the exiled deity Kodan bought time, or so they thought. Instead, their actions have accelerated the apocalypse.A new god plummets from the heavens, its descent a fiery scar across the sky, drawn by the very magic the four wielded. Simultaneously, the Ishta Seat, a relic of unimaginable power that has held a god in chains since the cataclysms that shattered the age, has been broken open by their interference. An ancient being stalks the world once more, its motives as inscrutable as they are dangerous.Most terrifying of all: the Kodan itself will not return in a thousand years. The timeline has collapsed. The god of corruption and conquest will descend in a single year, and its harbingers are already stirring.Summoned back into service when the world needs them most, the four unlikely companions find themselves at the center of a conflict far larger than any they faced before. Their journey takes them from the ruins of crater cities to the silent, wind-scoured henges of the high desert, through lands where the very stones remember the old wars of the gods. Along the way, they encounter fragments of lost magic, primordial forces that predate the current age and that respond to the touch of those who can decipher the wisdom of the ancients.Yet this is not merely a war of divine armies and falling stars. It is a journey of discovery. As the four confront manifestations of power beyond mortal comprehension, they are forced to reckon with the truths they have buried: the weight of Vashtu’s royal blood and the volatile air magic that answers her call; the wounds Alana still carries and the water magic that both heals and destroys; Krul’s quiet, earth-bound strength and the unexpected depths it hides; and Jird’s battle-hardened steel and the code that has kept him alive when so many others fell.Most of all, they must confront what they mean to one another. The uneasy alliance forged in the fires of the first incursion has become something deeper, more complicated, and more vital. Trust, loyalty, affection, and the fractures that threaten to split them apart will determine whether they can master the wild magic awakening around them, or whether the War of the Gods will consume the last remnants of the shattered world before the Kodan even arrives.War of the Gods is the second book in the Angry Gods Saga, an epic fantasy of reluctant heroes, ancient powers, and the price of defiance in a world where gods walk once more.