Some evils cannot be killed. They can only be carried.
Wen is a stablehand with no powers, no future, and no ambition beyond surviving another day in a village caught between two ancient dark forces.
Then his shovel strikes something buried deep beneath the jungle mud.
One ill-fated blow kills an ancient necromancer. But death is no obstacle to a man who mastered it centuries ago. The corpse remains in the ground while the necromancer's voice awakens inside Wen's mind-furious, arrogant, and determined to make the powerless stablehand his apprentice.
Wen wants nothing to do with forbidden magic. Unfortunately, something far worse is already moving against his village.
To protect the few people he loves, Wen must learn from the monster trapped inside his skull. Every lesson draws him deeper into a world of rotting corpses, restless souls, decaying flesh, and magic that leaves its stench behind. If the villagers discover what he has become, they will condemn him as a necromancer. If he refuses the voice's help, he may not live long enough to prove them wrong.
And the necromancer does not offer power freely.
He wants revenge.
Voice of the Necromancer is the first book in the Necropomp series-a brutal grimdark progression fantasy filled with visceral necromancy, dangerous magic, dark humor, and an unlikely hero burdened with the worst mentor imaginable.