Every murder Sylan Corbett types appears on the streets of Alderwick before the ink dries, down to the exact same details. The police hunt him, his publisher counts profits, and an unknown killer begins editing the fates of victims with a red pen. Now Sylan must write an ending that traps the executioner, before his own name is struck out.

Betrayed by nine gods and slaughtered until his soul was shredded into pieces, Kaelion Veyr rises again in the body of a dying beggar in the Volcanic City of Oakhaven. Armed with burning vengeance and cunning tactics from ancient times, the Mad God crawls up from the filthy mud to bring down the throne of heaven and slaughter his betrayers without a trace.