Tournament of the Gods Series

The mage known as Braim Kotogs is the first human to return from the dead, a fact which brings him more attention—and trouble—from mortals and gods alike than he wants. He doesn't remember who he is or much about his past, nor is he interested in winning the Tournament of the Gods. But when a mysterious assassin nearly takes his life, Braim must enter the Tournament in order to survive and learn the identity of his assailant. As the princess of a powerful nation, Raya Mana believes that she is destined to win the Tournament and become the new ruler of the world. But when she is assigned to a bracket that she loathes, Raya must deal with shattered expectations, in addition to an anonymous letter writer who claims to know all her darkest secrets. Carmaz Korva has known only poverty and hopelessness his whole life, having grown up on an island that the gods have abandoned. But when he is offered the chance to enter the Tournament of the Gods, he sees an opportunity to restore his people to their original glory while remaining ignorant of the tragedy that awaits him at the end. And with a mysterious and malevolent force plotting their destruction in the background, winning the Tournament of the Gods may be the least of their troubles.

Powerless and in the clutches of a mad god who desires the secrets of his resurrection, Braim Kotogs must escape the god's island in order to return to the Tournament of the Gods. But when the god's experiments leave him unable to trust his senses, escaping the deity's clutches suddenly becomes harder than it first seemed. Raya Mana wants a dress, which a famed katabans tailor has agreed to trade her for in exchange for one of her own dresses. Yet there is more to this famous tailor than meets the eye and Raya must break into his shop so she can to uncover his secrets before his dark plan can come to fruition. In exchange for learning the secrets of resurrection so he can bring back his deceased friend, Carmaz Korva helps a mad god kidnap Braim and spirit him away from the Tournament. Now Carmaz must ensure that no one knows that Braim is missing or that he is behind Braim's disappearance, otherwise he will be disqualified from the Tournament and be unable to ascend to godhood and help his people. And once this is all over, their lives—and their friendships—will never be the same.

After the events of the last book, Braim Kotogs now wants to move up in the Tournament of the Gods in order to secure his own safety from anyone who wants to take his life. To win his sub-bracket challenge, Braim must defeat his opponent—a shy, unassuming woman with a mysterious past and agenda—in battle, but when Braim learns of a terrible secret about his true nature, he will have to do more than simply win the sub-bracket challenge in order to survive. Raya Mana finds herself kidnapped by a violent and crazy mage who intends to use her for her own vile ends. But when Raya escapes the mage, she must now work with the mysterious Hermit of the Swamp in order to return to World's End, although with the violent mage and her half-god pet chasing her, Raya will have to use all of her wits and intelligence to make it back alive. Shunned and hated by his people, Carmaz Korva now lives alone in the Ruwan wilderness when he stumbles upon a plot by a mysterious race of golems to invade the surface and kill everyone on his home island of Ruwa. Carmaz must work with a legendary—and nsane—mage and his son in order to stop the golems' invasion before it begins, because if he does not, then everyone and everything he loves will be destroyed.

When an attempt to restore his magical powers goes wrong, Braim Kotogs must win the Tournament of the Gods in order to ascend to godhood and avoid certain death. But with time running out, and a sudden attack on the Tournament by an enemy that wishes to consume the whole world, Braim might not live long enough to win the Tournament. Raya Mana also wishes to win the Tournament of the Gods, but to do so, she must not only complete the final challenge in her bracket, but also survive a sudden interruption in the Tournament from an enemy who desires to kill her. If she fails to win the final challenge in her bracket, then she will not only lose her one and only chance at godhood, but her life as well. With the golems rampaging across Ruwa, Carmaz Korva must work with a human-eating god to save his people and the world from the golems' invasion. But when it turns out that the golems have the support of an enemy even stronger than the gods, Carmaz might not be able to save his homeland from the enemy within. In the final Tournament of the Gods book, Braim, Raya, and Carmaz face their most difficult challenge yet, because not only must they win the Tournament of the Gods, but they also must save the world from an enemy whose power dwarfs that of the gods.