Three dozen missing people. New gods vs. old gods. A battle as old as time ...
The Winterlands is a place of desperation and misery when David, a former spiritual soldier, shows up at a local inn. When he is refused a room, he makes fast friends with a scared priest named Garrison who is on a mission to expose a rival spiritual leader, named The Mountain Man by the locals. Though David does not believe in a single thing -- and refuses to give his real name to anyone -- he joins the priest on this mission into the snowy mountains of the Winterlands.
There he comes face to face with monsters he never thought possible, testing his faith at every turn, and making him fall for Jasper, the son of another soldier lost in battle. Will he and Jasper ever get out of the mountains together? Will Garrison find and defraud the prophet? Or will their entire party join the ghosts of the over three dozen souls who dwell beneath the ice?
Chapter 1The only things I ever believed in, before this particular job with the Mountain Man, were wealth and women. These were the only things that, without being a woman myself and without ever possessing any wealth myself, I still found enough evidence to convince me that they were true and real. They were even worth obtaining if I ever wanted to put in an effort to do so. But since I generally preferred the company of men, and since I never liked the way wealth made people stick to one place for longer than was smart, I didn’t put in an effort for either—until a priest of the old gods came into the inn where I was drinking and trying to barter for a room. That night changed everything. At first, I didn’t think much of the small man in a black suit that didn’t fit him. His brown hai