The Feast of Silence

The prayers that sustain an entire city are a lie—and only one woman can read the proof. Katrin Falk, a secular linguist in the theocratic city of Therach, uncovers an ancient text revealing that the sacred liturgies spoken daily by the ruling priest caste don't beseech the gods at all. They enslave them. With divine beings stirring beneath centuries of compulsion and a powerful High Liturgist determined to bury the truth, Katrin must find a way to free gods who may wake furious—before the chains shatter on their own.