The Younger Gods
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- Expected 13 Jan 2026
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- 85,00 kr
Publisher Description
Danger looms when a former priestess sails to the realm of the dead to find her fallen lover, only to discover the gods she thought she defeated are preparing for war.
Iona Night-Singer thought she’d overthrown the gods. Her mortal rebellion eked out a painful victory by using the gods’ own powers against them—though she lost her betrothed, Taran, in a final battle with the god of death. Months later, the war doesn’t feel over. Not with Taran gone. Especially not when the gods still answer the prayers she sings.
Angry, grieving, and with a gnawing dread that the gods will return, Iona strikes a deal with her former patron goddess: if Iona can convince Taran to follow her home from the Underworld, he’ll be free to live again. If she fails, they’ll both be trapped there forever.
No sooner does she find him, she makes a horrible discovery. The dead gods have been reborn, they are plotting revenge—and Taran, it seems, was always one of them. This reincarnated trickster god with Taran’s face no longer remembers her or the war they fought together, and she doubts not just his loyalties but his love.
Determined to stop the next war without revealing her part in the last one, Iona enters her deadliest battle yet, one where she fights to bring Taran home without him even knowing it.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Shepard pivots into romantasy (after the contemporary No One Does It Like You) with this pulse-pounding series launch about a priestess who travels from the mortal world to reach her lost lover. Iona Night-Singer started the mortal rebellion against the greedy god Death, and she paid the price. In a final stand against Death, her lover, Taran, threw himself into the line of fire, securing their victory through his demise. Unable to accept a life without him, Iona appeals to Wesha, the goddess of mercy to whom Iona nearly committed her life. Wesha agrees to help only if Iona can convince Taran to return to the mortal realm. But Taran isn't in the Underworld, as Iona expected; he's in the Summerlands, the realm of the gods. Worse, he has no memory of her or his past. Hard and bitter, Taran is far from the person she knew in the rebellion—and he harbors a shocking secret. Meanwhile, Iona is horrified to realize that the other gods are regrouping and preparing to retake the mortal world. Palpable danger and romance fill this fast-paced novel, which comes complete with a complex religious system and some tantalizing teasing about where the series will go next. Fans of Hannah Whitten and Elizabeth May should check this out.
