Kissen?s family were killed by zealots of a fire god. Now, she makes a living killing gods, and enjoys it. That is until she finds a god she cannot kill: Skedi, a god of white lies, has somehow bound himself to a young noble, and they are both on the run from assassins. Soon they will all face a reckoning - something is rotting at the heart of their world, and only they can be the ones to stop it.