Demons in the Golden Empire
He went to make a name for himself in the New World. But will he be remembered as a hero… or a curse?
Peru, 1532. Rodrigo de Salas lands with Pizarro's men carrying a sword, a debt, and a promise to return to Spain a somebody. The Inca empire is meant to be his making: gold enough to buy back his family's name, glory enough to bury his past.
But the mountains have their own memory. As the conquest grinds through temples and cities, Rodrigo begins to see what his countrymen refuse to: the empire they're tearing down is protected by things older than the Inca themselves. And something is following the men who profane it, one by one.
Caught between a crown that owns his future and gods that own the ground he stands on, Rodrigo must decide what kind of name he's really willing to leave behind. A historical fantasy of the Spanish conquest, told from inside the machinery of empire, where the demons wear both armor and feathers.
"Historical fiction with teeth: the conquest as you've never read it, half chronicle, half nightmare."
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