Sommerstone Chronicles

EVIL IS NOT UGLY. IT IS BEAUTIFUL AND SEDUCTIVE, WHICH IS WHY WE ARE DRAWN TO IT. Most of the world worships the fallen god, Malasephus, who promises power to the ambitious, wealth to the greedy, pleasure to the hedonist, revenge to the vengeful, and to all, eternal youth and beauty. These gifts are bestowed by the Beckoning, but they come with a price. For the Beckoning twists the mind and soul, until they are willing to do whatever it takes to obtain their desires. But not all men worship the fallen god. In the lands east of the Dohminar mountains, men still follow the Virtues. Protected by powerful runes, they are hunted by the Malasephus's creatures, the nohetka and feral. When everyone he knows is brutally murdered, Jan swears an oath of vengeance, and the Beckoning responds. Feeding his hate and anger, it shapes and twists him into a creature driven by vengeance. As he sheds more and more innocent blood in his quest to avenge his family, Jan must decide what matters more to him, vengeance, or his humanity.

The sequel to The Rune that Binds follows Elise, the young woman who had been betrothed to Jan learns of his death and the fate of his village. Determined to protect her own people from the Beckoning and its creatures, she sets out to learn the secrets of the runes from the enigmatic and secretive Sumisarians. But nothing and no one are what they seem in the Sumisarian order, and with the arrival of a mysterious man, the mysteries and intrigues she's only read about in the histories of Araheath suddenly become a very real and deadly part of Elise's life. And nothing she's learned can prepare her for Tome's darkest secret.