Cassi needed to prove to herself that she had what it took to be a goddess, and there was no better proving ground than a world truly on the brink. Cassi selected her instruments: Thistle, an oppositional orphan from the lower caste, and Wynn, heir to the throne. The two young women were on a collision course but shared one thing... They were both dying. It was fitting, Cassi thought, to have selected these women as this world was only the beginning. Ultimately, her war was with death itself. A goddess rises.
