THE BINDING
The priests say the gods will come back. Something has. It isn’t the gods.
A Hunger the Gods Buried — Book One of The Binding. Coming 2027.
BOOK ONE
A HUNGER THE GODS BURIED
Book One of The Binding · Coming 2027The priests say the gods will come back.Something has. It isn’t the gods.For the first time in three hundred years, the Hollow is loose in Iraderia. At first, its victims don’t rot or rage. They go home. They sit at their own tables, they know their children’s names, and they are themselves in every way but one: they are hungry, and it never stops.Then they kill. And whoever they kill gets back up, and walks home.Fourteen of them are still out there, and some don’t know yet what they are. And the six kingdoms are too busy watching each other to stop what’s walking home.It is a bad year to leave home. These three are about to do it anyway.A princess ashamed of her family, who maps the places its name can’t reach. A coastal guard who has never broken a promise, about to make two he’ll spend his life keeping: a pine cone for a seven-year-old, and something far heavier. A student who keeps asking about a kingdom that died in a single day. No one at the Plateau will answer her. Something beneath it will.And on their trail is a masked hunter, paid to bring the princess home.The kingdoms are preparing for one war.Two are coming.
THE BINDING SERIES
Iraderia is a continent of six kingdoms and one fragile peace. Their rulers sit together in the Hall of Accord, seven thrones and six votes, and watch each other.The land is older than anyone knows, and the maps remember what its people forgot: walled cities built to stand against dragons, a town where a thousand people burned their own homes and walked away, a kingdom that died in a single day.Magic runs through its history, and it leaves marks. One kingdom trains its mages in a city they are forbidden to leave. A war left mountains so thick with magic and fog that nobody can live in them. And in that same city of mages, one of the last three Strigorns alive is kept in chains, guarding something older than all the kingdoms.The priests say the gods will come back. The faithful are still waiting.And under all of it, kept down for thousands of years with nothing but fire, is the Hollow: a hunger with no cure. For three hundred years, it has been quiet.It was never understood. It was only held back.
THE BOOKSI. A Hunger the Gods Buried — 2027
II. Ruin's Eve — TBA
III. A Wolf at a King's Table — TBA
IV. Two Storms — TBA
V. The Bleeding Winter — TBA
VI. The Binding of Eternity — TBA
About the Author
H.Y. Yazbak was twenty-five when the idea for The Binding first came to him. It began as one book. It grew into six, and into a world with more than twelve thousand years of history behind its first page.He believes a world should feel as though it existed long before its story began: its history should shape its present, and its characters should carry the weight of their past.He wants to study engineering, and storytelling is his passion. The Binding is the work of his life.A Hunger the Gods Buried, Book One of The Binding, arrives in 2027.