The Deadbringer [first edition]

FINALIST MEDAL IN FANTASY from Next Generation Indie Book Awards, 2017IN THE WORLD OF THE ELLDERET, NO ONE IS INNOCENT AND NO ONE IS SAFE.The ashes of the Purging lie cold, and the next dance is about to begin in the Land of Moenda. Kira Vidal, a Deadbringer boy of fifteen, has escaped the fate of the rest of his kind, living peacefully with his uncle in the northern city of Opulancae. But then a strange man knocks on their door and a band of the Ascendancy's fearsome Sanctifiers appears, hunting for Kira, and nothing will ever be the same.The Deadbringer, the first book in The Ellderet Series, is a story of damaged heroes and imperfect villains, of a land scarred by ancient wounds that never truly healed. As Kira and the Sanctifiers approach their final confrontation, hunter and hunted alike must confront dark forces that threaten to overwhelm them all . . .E.M. Markoff weaves together epic fantasy, surrealism, and elements of horror to spin an intricate web of darkness.