In August's world, everything was created by a single, secular god. HE-the creator of everything. However, HE left the world to be ruled with a subtle, iron fist by less powerful gods. It had been two years since August stepped foot into his hometown, Sotira. It had also been that long since he'd last visited his father, seen his crooked smile, and felt those familial ties. He wished he didn't have to return. However, at the request of his girlfriend and his family, he was heading back home. To a place where the foundations themselves were built with false truths, hidden behind the 'utopia' the gods supposedly created. He knew fear lay under all that outward, deceitful happiness-a terror that Sotira would be next to come under the wrath of the gods. When August arrived home, he wasn't prepared for what he found. His best friend had been hung and turned into a monument in the middle of town by the order of his father and the gods. The world he thought he knew had been turned upside down. To turn it right again, August would do anything... even start down the path that would allow him to gain the power to kill God.