The Corrupted Spirit

By L. Jay Goodson

An ancient brotherhood shattered by grief.

A living weapon reborn in blood.

And an unholy relic that demands the ultimate sacrifice.

Two millennia have passed since the slaughter at Troy, but the wounds of the gods run deeper than time. Once revered as humanity's noble protector, Lord Blackoak has succumbed to eternal bitterness, viewing mankind as a blight that must be cleansed from the earth. At his command stands Korbin Rotesholz, the Redwood King, warped by dark alchemy into an oversized, bronze-skinned berserker whose feral fury threatens to consume his mind.

When Blackoak marches to turn a defiant village into ash, only his estranged younger brother, Sundra, stands in his path. Battle-weary and yearning for peace with his pregnant mate, Sundra orchestrates a desperate exodus to the sea, laying a scorched-earth deathtrap that shatters Blackoak's army and ignites a fratricidal duel upon the coastal cliffs.

When divine curses strike down those they love, the wrath of Mother herself fractures the realm, and from the bloodstained earth rises Ember.

Born from the fallout of fallen gods and bound by duty to raise Blackoak's reborn soul, Ember seeks absolute loyalty above all else. But when the exiled White Pine Queen dangles the forbidden Mind Breaker Amulet before her, Ember enters a deadly game of manipulation and dark sorcery. To awaken the relic's god-like power, ancient magic demands an unthinkable blood price: the life of the one she holds dearest.

Stripped of emotion and blazing with blue flame, an apex predator awakes. As the drums of war beat from the sands of the Crusades to the sails of the Norman invasion, one truth echoes across broken timelines:

In the war of the Redoak, death is never the end. It is only the crucible of a darker monster.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1520833733
• ISBN13: 9781520833736
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"