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