The Last Altar

The blood-altar on the hill still weeps each spring, and Alfhild Ketilson is the last woman alive who knows why. When the stone speaks back to her in a voice older than memory, she learns that a holy army marches to destroy it—and that the god she serves may not deserve saving. Caught between a dying deity's desperate hunger and a crusade hiding its own terrible ambitions, Alfhild must find a third path through a land where faith itself has become a weapon.