Worldbone

Telen Ashward hides in a fishing town under a false name, the last of a line sworn to guard the compass lodged in a dead god's skull. Then the horizon begins to stutter. Roads loop, rivers run backward, and travelers arrive where they began. To repair the failing relic, Telen must journey into the god's petrified body, past four Gates whose immortal Keepers each demand a price — memory, pain, certainty — while the warlord who butchered her family hammers reality into a shape of his own.