The Gifts of Asti

Varta is the last priestess of the god Asti, and her city has just burned. When barbarian invaders overrun Memphir, she flees into the deep places of the world with nothing but her faith and a companion no one else can see. Lur is a scaled creature who shares her mind, her pain, her purpose. Together they descend through caverns where an ancient space-faring race once walked, where a living lake holds secrets older than memory, where the bones of old gods lie forgotten in the dark. This is a story about what survives when everything familiar is destroyed. Varta must find meaning in a world that has forgotten her god, and in doing so, she discovers that some gifts transcend the civilizations that once cherished them. For readers who love classic fantasy with a layer of cosmic mystery, for those who want a heroine whose strength is quiet and unrelenting.