The Rise of the Goddess

<p><strong>How much would you sacrifice to free the one you love from a dark curse of evil and hate? Your destiny? Your existence? Everything?</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>FINALIST - BOOK AWARD - PAGE TURNER AWARDS 2021</strong></p><p><br></p><p>In a world older than time a portal stirs from its long slumber. From out of its cerulean mists the warship of the scion of darkness and destroyer of worlds emerges. With its gods long gone Elati is a world ripe for the taking. Marduk intends to take it all.</p><p><br></p><p>Corrupted by Marduk's devices Sethi succumbs to the grip of evil. A brutal merciless commander he oppresses the kingdoms of Elati his violence awakening a weapon of the deepest darkness. Poisoned by lies and tainted by hate he thirsts for its power to obliterate the light of the one he once loved beyond all reason.</p><p><br></p><p>Desperate to reprieve Sethi from his corruption Istara pursues her last hope risking everything to retrieve powerful artifacts of Thoth's her light her only defense against the growing darkness-and the one determined to annihilate her.</p><p><br></p><p>Bound by love and driven by duty Urhi-Teshub reaches the threshold of his destiny where he faces the horrifying price he must pay to protect Istara.</p><p><br></p><p>And at the heart of an abandoned island of gods surrounded by an endless storm an eternal tower awaits. Caught in the crosshairs of a primordial war for supremacy Sethi and Istara must face each other one final time. Darkness and light. Enemies. Lovers. Gods.</p><p><br></p><p><em>The Rise of the Goddess</em> is the final book in the Transcendence series.</p><p><br></p>