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Dead Country


A Fantasy Novel


Book 1 of the The Craft Wars Series


Subgenres & Tropes:

  • Epic Fantasy,
  • Gods and Mortals,
  • War-Torn,
  • Returning Home,
  • Reluctant Hero
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Fantasy where magic means resurrecting gods and averting wars
  • Returning home stories with old grudges and new dangers
  • Mentorship bonds between powerful, lost women
Publisher Description

From the co-author of the viral New York Times bestseller This is How You Lose the Time War.. Discover the destiny of the Craft in Dead Country, the standalone entry point to Max Gladstone's beloved fantasy epic.. BOOK ONE OF THE CRAFT WARS SERIES.

Since her village chased her out with pitchforks, Tara Abernathy has resurrected gods, pulled down monsters, averted wars, and saved a city, twice. She thought she'd left her dusty little hometown forever. But that was before her father died.. As she makes her way home to bury him, she finds a girl, as powerful and vulnerable and lost as she once was. Saving her from raiders twisted by the God Wars, Tara changes the course of the world..

Dead Country is the first book in the Craft Wars Series, a tight sequence of novels that will bring the sprawling saga of the Craft to its end, and the perfect entry point to this incomparable world.

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