Malicious Designs: The Scattered Cadre #1

Empires rise and empires fall, but legends live forever.

The gods killed most of humanity in the Cleansing, but there are pockets of survivors.

Diminished by the Cleansing and blinded to the truth that their gods will eventually destroy what’s left of Rasa, the gods’ chosen avatars plot and scheme against each other for dominion over a broken world.

In the wastelands, Avril spends his days salvaging tech in abandoned cities and avoiding anybody who still serves the gods, but when he’s caught between a deadly dragon and a god’s malicious foot soldiers, he’s drawn into a mystery that will define the rest of his life.

Laurill, an insatiably curious shadow-walker, asks one question too many and draws the attention of dangerous people who are relentless in their desire to catch her.

Both Avril and Laurill are hunted and must do everything they can to survive, all the while, trying to learn why people are hunting them.

Malicious Designs is the opening novel in The Scattered Cadre, set in Rasa where dragons soar above abandoned cities of technological splendor, and the survivors of the Cleansing must choose between kneeling to malevolent gods and risking annihilation.

Take a stand. Defy the gods.

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