HE SAVED THE WORLD. SHE WAS DAMNED.
When her mother is claimed by Death a second time, Kateryna is forced to abandon her afterlife and descend into Pandemonium—a shattered underworld shaped by pain, memory, and buried sin. To save her mother’s soul, she must join forces with her estranged father, whose devotion to a fallen goddess set this all in motion. Hunted by Morgana, the Goddess Corrupted and her chosen griffin-riders, Kateryna must journey through the shadows and confront the reality of her own dark past—because in Pandemonium, death is only the beginning.
When her father’s blind devotion to a fallen goddess kills her mother for the second time, Kateryna Cain abandons the stability of her tortured afterlife and descends into Pandemonium—a fractured, hellish underworld where the dead are not allowed to rest.
To reclaim her mother’s soul, she must join forces with the last person she trusts: her estranged, fanatical father. Together they soar across turgid seas and haunted fields, driving deep into the heart of a city ruled by the Demon King—all while evading the ever-present gaze of Morgana, the Goddess Corrupted, who no longer cares for the balance of life and death.
But Pandemonium is not like the mortal world. It reflects the pain they carry and the sins they’ve buried—the consequences of every choice they made in life. As Kateryna’s journey spirals deeper into shadow, she must confront not only the horrors of hell, but the truth of her own past.
For fans of Steven Erikson’s Malazan Book of the Fallen and N.K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth Trilogy.
In the tradition of Dante’s Inferno and Milton’s Paradise Lost, ASHEN RIDER is a dark, mythical meditation on perseverance, fractured family, and the cost of redemption—in a world where death is only the beginning.
