About the book

Rina has spent ten years surviving the Caijery with one purpose: keep Trini alive.

Orphaned together and taken by the same Matron, they learned young when to obey, when to lie—and when to run. Now Trini is pregnant, trapped as a Vessel, and running out of time.

Rina has a plan to get them out. Then everything goes wrong. With their escape unraveling inside the desert kingdom of Jainen, Rina does the one thing guaranteed to draw every eye away from Trini.

She enters the Searing Trial.

Surviving the Searing Trial is rare. Becoming a true Goddess is almost unheard of. Kingdoms have spent generations trying to manufacture someone capable of it—and would go to war to possess the woman who finally succeeds.

Rina doesn’t believe she’s divine. She only needs everyone else to believe she might be.

Corvin of Draketh has spent more than a decade hunting the Caijery—the people who decide what the gods demand, and who must suffer for it. To him, a Goddess in Caijery hands would not be a miracle.

She would be a weapon.

So while kings gather to see what Rina might become, Corvin comes to Jainen determined to make certain the Caijery never get the Goddess they’ve been waiting for.

Then the trials begin.And the impossible follows.