Blood for blood and lead for lead in the land of the broken plains.  A battle between gods, hundreds of years in the past, leaves the land of Kalthima scarred and in a state of perpetual conflict. A slain god’s energy is dispersed and scattered, inadvertently absorbed by buried crystals all across the continent. A prized resource, fought over and won. Wix wants nothing more than to escape east, away from the warfront, to a place where he can be his own man. But he has another destiny. As the wheels of fate turn, a new tipping point is about to occur in the conflict. Gods will rise. Gods will fall. Bonds will be forged. Chains will be broken. And once again, the world will be rent and scorched by in a battle of gods in the land of the Riven West.