FINALIST MEDAL IN FANTASY from Next Generation Indie Book Awards, 2017 In the aftermath of the Purging, the Deadbringers are no more. The Ascendancy has positioned itself as the land's dominant power by exploiting the people's fear of the Deadbringers' innate abilities to summon souls and reanimate the dead. Yet its hold is not complete, for in the North the Bastion stands in the way of the Ascendancy and its iron-willed elite soldiers, the Sanctifiers. But, somehow, a single Deadbringer has managed to survive. Kira Vidal, a boy of fifteen, has remained hidden, living peacefully with...