Australian horror author and Aurealis Award Nominee Christopher Ruz makes his epic fantasy debut.

After decades of loyal military service, Richard has discovered that the Magician he serves is more monster than man—and young women have been disappearing into the Magician’s dungeons.

To keep his own daughter safe, Richard flees into the desert wastes where magic boils beneath the sand and demons walk the dunes in the shape of men. He has stolen one of the Magician’s greatest prizes; the calcified heart of a demon, which he hopes to trade in exchange for sanctuary. What he doesn’t know is that his daughter, Ana, is the key to all the Magician’s plans and he’ll lay waste to the world to get her back...