Today’s the arbitrarily designated day in which I get the pleasure of revealing my queer seafaring fantasy novel’s cover! I’ve been working on Blood of the Gods for the better part of four or five years, and WOW has that time flown. I can’t believe we’re getting closer to the publication date every day!

I’m not going to dillydally. Let’s get on with it!

Synopsis

Falling. Frigid steel. Sharp, acidic pain. A mounting desperation to escape, even if it means diving into the ocean’s unforgiving depths.

This is all Stranger can remember.

When the crew of the Vengeance rescues them from certain death at the hands of Midir’s endless ocean, the gruff and obstinate Captain Jonah Morgan is quick to interrogate. Who are they? Where did they come from? Why was somebody drawing their blood?

But Stranger has no answers—not even a name to call their own. The only information they can offer is a description of the man who had tortured them.

Slowly, they realize their missing memories play not only a pivotal role in their own personal identity, but also in the grander entanglement of mortality and the divine. The God King Einari’s cataclysmic Great Flood had ravaged Midir one thousand years ago—an act of divine rage that had drowned continents and killed billions. But even now, the prospect of human extinction looms beneath the endless waves.

Somewhere, locked away in Stranger’s missing memories, is the key to human salvation.

The Cover

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Wren L. Rivers

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