The Gates of Damnation

About the book

To carry his wife home, he must become the horror the underworld fears. Menander, one of the last of a hunted race, slips through the Infernal Gate to seize a tome of blood sorcery bound in the skin of murdered kings. Within hours, his wife is dead. Her body hangs cold across his shoulder, yet it refuses to rot, and the gate behind them has vanished into solid rock. Ahead lie the City of Torment, the City of Hatred and the City of Death. To cross them, Menander forges a pact in fire and blood with the Maiden of Marsis, keeper of the damned. Her brand floods him with the strength of five men and the rage of the underworld. She gives him three days to deliver the tome, or his soul is hers for eternity. Soon the underworld’s monsters whisper of a hunter who leaves no one breathing. Every kill feeds that rage, and hour by hour, the man his wife loved bleeds away.