Conqueror of Dead Gods (Ashfyre Quintet Book 5)

The Final Chapter of the Ashfyre Quintet. Five books, 1.5 million words ends here in a bloody finale.

The north is blanketed in war.

Tal’s armies do the Butcher’s work, slaughtering their way across the continent under the direction of Dalene and Oblan. The Fallen Prince and the Tithe lay waste to cities and the living alike, their hands bloody with the work of demons.

Renna, the Throatcutter Queen, stands at the head of the largest army in the north. Breaking chains and fighting a ruthless war with the bloodthirsty Nyd at her side and the magnificent Awl of Calisad as her champion, Renna plays a dangerous game, she seeks not only the defeat of the Butcher’s host, but to have all of the north bend to her crown. Roan Laldun and his host of men and Goath sail from the south toward Treva, carrying the fight to the demons. With his wife Taribeth, Conventual of the Unspoken, he attempts to do right in a land that destroys those who try. Colm, High Pyre of the Order of the Ashes, begins a new chapter, broken but unafraid, bent on defeating the demons and pulling the dour Order into the modern world. In the Ashfyre, he seeks the wisdom to guide the way forward, beset on all sides by the hope that what he is doing is right.

Selka, Patra, and Prim have found temporary respite, but remain in the thick of it, each struggling to determine their role in opposing the forces that threaten to end everything, with the suspicion that not all is as it seems.

In the shadows, the Mother of Witches plots. The Butcher draws the slaughter northward. The dead pile high. The question is no longer whether the world will change, it is whether anything will survive.