Before the Culling Ends

Calla Voss has one rule: don't let anyone find out she can hear the gods.
Not whispers. Not vague impressions. Full conversations - rants, gossip, petty arguments about who got the better temple. Turns out the divine are insufferable, and for reasons no one can explain, Calla is the first mortal they've bothered talking to in three centuries.
She'd really prefer they didn't.
When she's conscripted into the Ashen Order - an elite force of god-bonded warriors where one in three recruits don't make it out alive - hiding her ability stops being inconvenient and starts being a matter of survival. The trials are brutal. Her competitors are ruthless. And her secret, if discovered, would make her a target for forces far worse than a failed training exercise.
The gods, naturally, think this is hilarious.
They also won't shut up about it.

A story about power, survival, and the absolute worst divine intervention imaginable.

Content Warnings: This book contains depictions of physical violence and combat in trial scenarios, character death (not graphic), assault, implied trauma, strategic manipulation, and themes of institutional corruption. Main characters experience serious injuries including broken bones.