Description: "The Devoted Lands was once home to many gods. Now, after centuries of brutal wars, only Tempestra-Innara, the Enduring Flame, remains. As a divine warrior, Lys is outwardly loyal to her goddess. If she dreams of deicide, that's her business. When a routine heretical execution erupts into a near-fatal assassination attempt on Tempestra-Innara, Lys sees a glimmer of hope for her freedom. Lys is chosen to hunt down the heretics and find an ancient reliquary with the power to kill a god. Annoyingly, she's not alone. Paired with Nolan, a warrior from a rival cloister who is as pious as he is determined, Lys must feign devotion if she hopes to keep her own god-killing ambitions within reach. But as they pursue the heretics linked to the assassination, Lys uncovers a world with more possibility--and peril--than she ever anticipated"--
Brief description: Lyndsay Ely is an author of science fiction and fantasy across YA and adult categories. Her debut, Gunslinger Girl, was a YA genre-bent dystopian Western. She has also published an Overwatch tie-in novel, Deadlock Rebels, is a contributor to Overwatch 2: Heroes Ascendant: An Overwatch Story Collection, and is currently working on an upcoming interactive adventure novel for Five Nights at Freddy's: Escape the Pizzaplex. She currently resides in Boston.
Review Quotes: "Action-packed and original, The Lost Reliquary is a riveting adventure set in a brutal world of religious oppression. Lys's struggles to manage past trauma and a long-buried hatred of the very power she's sworn to serve gripped me from the very first page." --M. H. Ayinde, author of A Song of Legends Lost