When the gods burned the world, murdering hundreds of millions of people, that was the choice given to the survivors.
Dune d'Turintar, daughter of a god's chosen and a member of Lord Obdurin's bastard cadre, kneels to no-one. In defiance of Lord Obdurin, her father, and the gods, Dune takes up the fallen godslayers' cause, determined to succeed where the godslayers failed.
For Avril, Dune represents much more than his first challenge as Lord Obdurin's newest first-sworn. She will force him to take sides and stand with the chosen or against him.
The Bastard Cadre is an ambitious science fantasy saga set in a futuristic dystopia where dragons soar above cities of technological splendor, and what's left of humanity must choose between kneeling to malevolent gods and risking annihilation to fight them.