For a thousand years, the carcaern orbs have held the wraiths at bay. But someone is shattering orbs and murdering gods. Faced with the impossible task of protecting Indham against the monstrous wraiths, Edoma must break a twenty-year-old oath and practice blood magic again. But there's a reason why she abandoned the practice decades ago, and the costs are greater than ever. The Shattered Orb is the first novel in the Vagrant Souls series, an epic fantasy with constant twists and turns in a dark world of sinister intrigue.