BOOK ONE: SCATTERLINGS OF FATE
Conn has spent his life as a weapon of the Iron Thorn, trained to track down warlocks and burn out heresy wherever it festers. He believes in order. He believes in duty. He believes the gods of old are dead.
He is wrong.
When a captured warlock dies whispering of ancient relics and a rising power, Conn is sent beyond the empire’s borders to stop a threat that should not exist. Instead, he finds Garyn.
Garyn’s home has been razed to ash. Enslaved and torn from everything he loves, he carries a secret buried in his bloodline. An old god is waking, and it has chosen him.
Forced into an uneasy alliance, hunter and fugitive must cross wastelands, evade imperial soldiers, and descend into a ruined temple where something vast waits beneath stone and bone. Behind them, the empire closes in. Ahead lies a ritual that could shatter the world.
Faith will be tested. Empires will fall. And when the fire is finally called, neither of them will walk away unchanged.
Call the Fire | Nerine Dorman
Nerine Dorman is a South African author and editor of science fiction and fantasy. Her fantasy novel The Company of Birds appeared with Mirari Press in 2025. Her novel Sing down the Stars won Gold for the Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature in 2019 and The Percy Fitzpatrick Award for Children's and Youth Literature in 2021.
She is the lead author of the Winter Mage series. Legacy of Obsidian (Book One) and Dawn of the Empress (Book Two) appeared with Mirari Press in 2026.
