An absorbing and original epic fantasy with rich world-building and a wry take on genre conventions from a Betty Trask Award-winning author

Three between the old and the new. 

Three below the mountain. 

The Priest. Trained to kill for God; now fighting for survival in a religion tearing itself apart. 

The Builder. Son to a traitor, now ordered to spy on those who overthrew his land. 

The Child. Protected, lied to, now learning the truth. 

In a harsh, high land the plans of rulers and ruled, conquerors and conquered, Tzans and zealots play out beneath the spread wings of the Custodians and the shifting light and dark of Craithe, the God Mountain. 

Three people carry hope in their hands. And an ancient, teeming evil senses its chance to return. 

W. P. Wiles was born in 1978 and is the author of three previous novels: The Way Inn, Care of Wooden Floors and Plume. He is also a freelance journalist and has written on architecture and design for a wide variety of magazines and publications.