A dark, epic fantasy about a girl who must rethink everythingshe believes after she is betrayed and hunted by the religion that raisedher-from Megan Bannen, author of The Bird and the Blade. Perfect for fans of TheWinner's Curse and The Girl of Fire and Thorns. Gelya is a Vessel, a girl who channels the wordof the One True God through song. Cloistered with the other Vessels of herfaith, she believes-as all Ovinists do-that a saint imprisoned Elath the GreatDemon centuries ago, saving humanity from earthly temptation.
When Gelya stumbles into a deadly cover-up bythe Ovinists' military, she reluctantly teams up with Tavik, an enemy soldier, to survive. Tavik believes that Elath is actually a mother goddess who must beset free, but while he succeeds in opening Her prison, he inadvertently turnsGelya into Elath's unwilling human vessel. Now the church that raised Gelya considers her athreat. In a race against the clock, she and Tavik must find a way to exorciseElath's presence from her body.
But will this release stop the countdown to theend of the world, or will it be the cause of the earth's destruction?And asTavik and Gelya grow closer, another question lingers between them: What willbecome of Gelya?
A dark, epic fantasy about a girl who must rethink everythingshe believes after she is betrayed and hunted by the religion that raisedher-from Megan Bannen, author of The Bird and the Blade. Perfect for fans of TheWinner's Curse and The Girl of Fire and Thorns. Gelya is a Vessel, a girl who channels the wordof the One True God through song. Cloistered with the other Vessels of herfaith, she believes-as all Ovinists do-that a saint imprisoned Elath the GreatDemon centuries ago, saving humanity from earthly temptation.
When Gelya stumbles into a deadly cover-up bythe Ovinists' military, she reluctantly teams up with Tavik, an enemy soldier, to survive. Tavik believes that Elath is actually a mother goddess who must beset free, but while he succeeds in opening Her prison, he inadvertently turnsGelya into Elath's unwilling human vessel. Now the church that raised Gelya considers her athreat. In a race against the clock, she and Tavik must find a way to exorciseElath's presence from her body.
But will this release stop the countdown to theend of the world, or will it be the cause of the earth's destruction?And asTavik and Gelya grow closer, another question lingers between them: What willbecome of Gelya?