The Ritual Audiobook (Free)

A devastating plague is sweeping the continent of Greater Virren….

Its origins is unknown, its dominance of the land near complete. In situations of grim desperation, pestilence offers given method to superstition, and the citizenry are actually more divided than ever.

Yet the city of Rothenberg continues to be inexplicably untouched….

The council has grown convinced of their immunity, even as their neighbors are consumed before them. As the world teeters for the brink of collapse, a zealous religious order provides about The Ritual reemerged. They state to have discovered the source of the plague…but can they be trusted?

The plague will never reach Rothenberg….

Katarina Lorenz, a noble of the city and veteran of the civil battle that shook the continent, remains to be unconvinced. She conspires to keep the city with her companion Tannhauser to learn what’s really going on beyond its walls.

The Ritual may be the first in a trilogy of gripping high-fantasy novelettes. The debut possesses all of the beloved hallmarks supporters of the genre will acknowledge, but is recognized by its gritty atmosphere and confrontation with some of the most unsettling chapters of human history.