Publisher's Synopsis
A young mage with raw power must make a choice between serving the city he loves and honoring a vow to the love of his life. He'll twist the limits of his order's magic and use the terrifying might of the devourer god-brother.
When magic, love, and social strife come to a head, Decize will explode in a tumultuous collision of orcs, elves, dwarves, werewolves, and Masons.
Haywood must choose between helping the people of Decize and supporting the woman he loves. When tensions between workers and the new Mechanic and Artificery come to a head he is forced to use the terrifying power of Bileam's ever-hungry maw. Will Valarie understand when he kills hundreds? Will she forgive him for using his magic against her employers? Discover the most frightening aspect of the Triune Divine magics while Haywood wrestles with the order's strict rules and unspoken laws. Will he master the pure emptiness that devours everything it touches, or will he shy away from that awesome power and let people die? Return to Decize where magic and intrigue collide when a world-spanning corporation moves into town and destroys the local economy. Lauralee Shannon returns from Thanous after studying at the Academic Academy of Arcane Sciences to further her official metal magic training. When her father sends a desperate plea for her return she abandons her studies to save her birthright. Join the powerful heiress in her own point of view while she masters her unique magic in her fight against the consortium. Haywood Vale is a full Gardener, a male practitioner of the Triune Divine empowered with magic bequeathed by the twin gods Baari and Bileam. His mastery over Baari's binding magic rivals even the most powerful acolytes of his order, but he still shies away from Bileam's terrible strength. After the events of Gardens of Blood, the consortium is welcomed in by Dareld Shannon and Rhett Mayberry, the fearsome fire mage. They shut down the lifeblood Foundry and lay off all the local workers. Decize devolves into chaos as people starve and the consortium offers half wages for jobs people had for decades. Haywood wants to fight back and support the people of Decize, but his wife Valarie Diehl is a mechanic working for the consortium. Torn between his love for Valarie and desire to help suffering people Haywood must make a choice: fight against the consortium or let them devastate the city he loves. What happens when "Walmart" invades a regional city empowered with magic and might. The consortium is a powerful worldwide corporation that tries to displace the populace, crush local businesses, and devastate the economy for their own benefit. The displaced workers unite and only a struggling Gardener can help save the city, and the Empire.
