Chronicles of the Crossing

Death isn't as restful as they imagined.When the god of pestilence invades their world, what else is there to do but assemble the most badass collection of fighters, spell casters, and divine protectors to slay the foul beast? For the heroes, Severina, Karas, and Heliosa, it turns out to be a very bad day. While they are ultimately victorious, they unfortunately find themselves dead.That's when the real adventure begins. Traversing the Sunless Crossing, they must adapt to a whole new world of souls, monsters, and destinies. Guided by Severina's gargoyle protector, the group discovers the truth behind death and the afterlife.Unbeknownst to them, a dark force also ended up in the Sunless Crossingcult members hell-bent on resurrecting their fallen god.Gathering allies and escaping local criminal elements, the heroes race to stop the cultand their leader, known only as The Harbingerfrom resurrecting a being that threatens not only the Sunless Crossing, but every living world connected to it.

How far will she go to earn her place in the Great Beyond?When the necromancer Mara finds herself in purgatory, she only has two options: wait for her master to drag her back as an undead slave or find a way to pass on to whatever waits beyond.But her afterlife won't come easy, not when her god's condition is that she must disturb the eternal rest of deities long buried. For Mara, who's spent the past ten years training to be a remorseless practitioner of the dark arts, reviving dead gods doesn't sound dubious at all, but she'll need help to accomplish the task.

Cypress Monroe: shapeshifter, spymaster, dearly departed.Cypress went to her grave having discovered a plot to overthrow her queenand her paramour. Now, her soul scours the realm between life and death for a way to get word to her beloved before it's too late.Dimereial, an angel of redemption, has an offer for Cypress. If she can relieve a few fellow souls of their worst memories before they shuffle on, Cypress will have an audience with the right people in time to save her lover. Memory theft is a heinous crime in Nox Valar, but if it's done to save the living and dead alike, what's the harm?Rasa's first memory, her only memory, is crashing in the Ashen Fields, a flash of screaming soulfire and momentous impact. Then she was fighting, beset by tattered shadows that clawed and scratched and wailed as she tore their essence from them. Secan, a shepherd of lost souls, found her there. Amidst a mound of sundered undead, he's inherited his hardest task yet: trying to guide a soul that doesn't know itself.