The Blood Obelisk

In a world still scarred by an ancient cataclysm, a ragged company of mercenaries, exiles, and unlikely heroes races against the dying light.

Roderic Schumacher is a battle-hardened sellsword haunted by nightmares he cannot name. When a mysterious wizard named Aldric offers him and his dwarven comrade Thorek a small fortune to join a desperate quest, he accepts never suspecting the true cost. What begins as a simple escort across war-torn lands becomes something far darker.

As the company flees burning cities and the relentless pursuit of spectral wraiths, they uncover a truth that could unmake the world: the Blood Obelisk still pulses with unholy life. Once the prison of the fallen sorcerer Maldrakus the Souleater, it now stirs again, its Pale Hand reaching across the Grey Mountains to raise the dead and twist the living. An army marches under a Black Rider. Kingdoms teeter on the brink of annihilation. And the only hope lies with a handful of broken souls willing to cross into the desolation no one has survived.

But the closer they draw to the Obelisk, the more Roderic begins to suspect the terrifying truth: some evils do not merely hunt you.

They remember you.

A sweeping epic of war, sacrifice, and forgotten sins, The Blood Obelisk is a grimdark fantasy where legends are born in blood and the line between hero and monster is thinner than a blade's edge.
For readers of The Black Company, The First Law, and Malazan Book of the Fallen.