The God Seed

A dead god's last heartbeat pulses inside a clay jar, and the gravedigger carrying it has no idea what he holds. Tobin Vasik took the job for coin—enough to feed his village through winter—but the sound within the jar calms monsters, draws followers, and awakens something ancient in the corpse-landscape of a world built on divine remains. When he discovers that his employers want the heartbeat destroyed forever, Tobin must choose between a safe delivery and the terrifying possibility that the youngest god isn't truly dead.