The God War is over. An empire fueled by suffering, slavery, and betrayal remains…
In the fractured lands of the Salvian Empire, the Great Houses rule through blood and fear. For years, Alandra Phoenyka has hunted crazed Sonomancers and the empire's worst, paid in empty promises that her stolen child would be returned. Each step forward demands another compromise. Another betrayal. Another piece of herself lost.
When those promises turn to treachery, she stops fighting for the empire. And will burn the world to ash to get her daughter back.
In the empire’s mining camps, Bez Windstrider has endured years of torture and painful experiments, pushing him to the brink of suicide. He clings to one purpose: escape and spill the blood of the three who murdered his parents—completing the ritual that will free their souls from damnation. But the deeper his grief cuts, the boy the empire tried to break becomes something far more dangerous.
As their separate paths spiral toward a bloody collision, the buried truths of the God War begin to surface. What begins as two personal vendettas threatens to unleash a fate the entire world must pay.
Because empires do not fall quietly.
And the gods that shaped them are not as dead as they seem.
Makerborn is the first book in the Maladies of Empire series, a brutal epic dark fantasy about vengeance, grief, magic born from suffering, and the cost of love.
For readers of dark, character-driven epic fantasy in the vein of Joe Abercrombie, Mark Lawrence, R.F. Kuang, Evan Winter, and Steven Erikson, with a dash of worldbuilding and magic similar to Brandon Sanderson.
