"To awaken the god, one must offer the purest soul. But what if the god was never asleep?"A sleeping god must be revived For fifty years, the empire has followed the words of the Prophecy, to revive a sleeping god, one worthy woman must be offered. A sacred competition called The Sum is held, where beauty, grace, loyalty, and power are tested. Only one will win. Only one will die.Enter Tirzeh, a foul-mouthed, sarcastic, and zero percent interested in playing by their rules. She never asked to be chosen. She just played for the money. She never believed in gods. And yet, here she is, forced to parade in front of the nine idiot Magistri who run the empire like a circus they lit on fire themselves.