The Eaters of the Gods have ruled over these lands for millennia beyond reckoning, since before the histories were inscribed and man first learned the wonders of fire. In this place of perpetual darkness the Eaters wage their secret wars against each other. Each meaningless battle fought through their proxies, the Chosen. Mortal men and women granted a fraction of the Eaters inhuman powers in exchange for their absolute servitude. Kaius counts himself among the hallowed ranks of the Chosen, one of the blessed few with the skill and intellect to draw a patron’s favour, devoted body and soul to his brutal duty as arbiter and executioner of his master’s desires. Lucia is no more than a travelling minstrel, carrying old legends on her tongue and a tune on her sickle-harp, bad luck has led her to the very worst place at the very worst time. Their paths may cross and their fates may entwine but what can mere mortals do in the face of the vast alien power of the Eaters of the Gods? G.D. Penman’s Call Your Steel is an gritty, action-packed dark fantasy filled with intrigue, brutality and Lovecraftian horror. **