The Dying Sun: 1 (The Gods Chronicle)

ShaiKhal is changing. The impenetrable mists that hug its coastline are waning for the first time in nine hundred years. From those mists two women emerge: Ruya the high priestess of death and Sarka the champion of war. They claim they come in peace but unrest follows wherever they travel. The Akhenic Temple the backbone of ShaiKhal calls them cultists and heretics. The high priest begs the shahs permission for an inquisition. The women request an audience. Merikh Madiaran shah of ShaiKhal has never been a man of much faith. The only son of a tyrannical and faithful man Merikh has seen the worst religion has to offer. Since taking the throne Merikh has fought the legacy of hypocrisy and corruption left in his fathers wake. A religious inquisition is the last problem Merikh wants in the early years of his reign. But when a would-be assassin admits to being a cultist it seems that peace may not be an option.