Buried in the Sky (Pantheon, #0)
by Jack Geurts
What does the end of a civilisation look like?The people of the Zend don't bury their dead, nor do they burn them. What they do instead is build towers...When a lonely corpse bearer sees soldiers on the horizon, he knows his ancient way of life is over.His country is about to fall victim to an empire on the rise. An empire with a terrible, secret power...