Ruling with an iron hand, the Church has eliminated the ancient pagan ways. Yet demonic gheists terrorize the land, hunted by the Inquisition, while age-old hatreds rage between the north and the south. Three heroes Malcolm and Ian Blakeley and Gwendolyn Adair must end the bloodshed before chaos is unleashed."

"Tensions flare between north and south, and hatreds erupt inot war. Creatures long kept confined rise from below, spreading destructionsa on an unimaginable scale. While Malcolm Blakley seeks to end the war before all of Tenumbra is consumed, his son Ian searches for the huntress Gwendolyn Adair, and finds himself shadowed by the totem of his family, the Iron Hound."--From back cover.

 “inventive, suitably epic series” - Barnes & Noble SFF blog