The Demon Star

Gods rule this planet, and every year thousands of humans are harvested as sacrifices. Ysira Naktis was one of them, marked for death. She did the unthinkable and survived, and she carries back something that could alter the fate of worlds.

Her estranged son is now chosen to become the vessel of a god-killing demon. Ysira faces a bad choice: let him wield cosmic power at a terrible cost, or doom millions in order to save him.

Her one ally is Brother Jacen Kheris, a gifted exorcist who has become an addict weighed down by guilt and desperate for a purpose. Together they fight through cultists, aliens and the gods themselves, moving from a canyon haunted by demons to a satellite in orbit.

The action is cinematic, the setting brutal, and the science fantasy carries horror in its texture, with religious conflict and cosmic strangeness running through it. The deeper the two dig, the more sinister the truths they uncover, and Ysira must decide what her son is worth.