To challenge the gods is to invite their wrath. So it is written of Lachyla, the Blighted City, in the Codex of the Ages. But who reads codices? And who really believes the tall stories of the Taleweavers?
Dagra does. If it's a story about the gods – even a dead god – he believes every word. When his sellsword team is offered a lucrative contract to cross a godless region and retrieve a burial jewel from the crypts of Lachyla, Dagra wants no part of it. His companions are not so daunted. They're going, with or without him. Torn between his faith and the importance of his friendships, he reluctantly joins them in search of the fabled city. But when Lachyla's foul truth proves ghastlier even than its legend, Dagra must face the toughest challenge of his life... and of his death.