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Scatterlings of Fate #1
Call the Fire
BOOK ONE: SCATTERLINGS OF FATE
Conn has spent his life as a weapon of the Iron Thorn, trained to track down warlocks and burn out heresy wherever it festers. He believes in order. He believes in duty. He believes the gods of old are dead.
He is wrong.
When a captured warlock dies whispering of ancient relics and a rising power, Conn is sent beyond the empire’s borders to stop a threat that should not exist. Instead, he finds Garyn.
Garyn’s home has been razed to ash. Enslaved and torn from everything he loves, he carries a secret buried in his bloodline. An old god is waking, and it has chosen him.
Forced into an uneasy alliance, hunter and fugitive must cross wastelands, evade imperial soldiers, and descend into a ruined temple where something vast waits beneath stone and bone. Behind them, the empire closes in. Ahead lies a ritual that could shatter the world.
Faith will be tested. Empires will fall. And when the fire is finally called, neither of them will walk away unchanged.
Conn has spent his life as a weapon of the Iron Thorn, trained to track down warlocks and burn out heresy wherever it festers. He believes in order. He believes in duty. He believes the gods of old are dead.
He is wrong.
When a captured warlock dies whispering of ancient relics and a rising power, Conn is sent beyond the empire’s borders to stop a threat that should not exist. Instead, he finds Garyn.
Garyn’s home has been razed to ash. Enslaved and torn from everything he loves, he carries a secret buried in his bloodline. An old god is waking, and it has chosen him.
Forced into an uneasy alliance, hunter and fugitive must cross wastelands, evade imperial soldiers, and descend into a ruined temple where something vast waits beneath stone and bone. Behind them, the empire closes in. Ahead lies a ritual that could shatter the world.
Faith will be tested. Empires will fall. And when the fire is finally called, neither of them will walk away unchanged.
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Published April 30, 2026
About the author
Nerine Dorman
73 books239 followersNerine Dorman is a South African author and editor of science fiction and fantasy currently living in Cape Town, with short fiction published in numerous anthologies. She is a contributor to the Locus Award-winning Afro-Centered Futurism in Our Speculative Fiction edited by Eugen Bacon (Bloomsbury, 2024). Her novel Sing down the Stars won Gold for the Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature in 2019 and The Percy Fitzpatrick Award for Children's and Youth Literature in 2021. Her YA fantasy novella, Dragon Forged, was a finalist in the Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature in 2017, and she is the curator of the South African Horrorfest Bloody Parchment event and short story competition. Her short story “On the Other Side of the Sea” (Omenana, 2017) was shortlisted for a 2018 Nommo award. Her novella The Firebird won a Nommo for “Best Novella” in 2019. In addition, she is a founding member of the SFF authors’ co-operative Skolion.
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