Publisher's Synopsis
"A Sprawling Fantasy that's an inventive love letter to the genre." Kirkus Reviews.
Every forty eight years a red comet named "the Fire Horse" paints the night, ushering in an age of turmoil and disaster. After each pass the world settles down to an uneasy respite, hurrying to rebuild, weary of the traveler's inevitable return. It is the Ninth Age, and once again a great evil prepares to consume the world. This time the Fire Horse has unfurled its mane, and lashed its tail, announcing a debt to be paid in innocent blood. The blighted goddess Kakista has returned, determined to exploit the comet's power, in her quest to destroy the river people for a grievance done to her eons ago.
