This week on the podcast, Patrick and Tracy welcome Lyndsay Ely, author of The Lost Reliquary.
About The Lost Reliquary: The Devoted Lands was once home to many gods. Now, after centuries of brutal wars, only Tempestra-Innara, the Enduring Flame, remains.
As a divine warrior, Lys is outwardly loyal to her goddess. If she dreams of deicide, that’s her business. When a routine heretical execution erupts into a near-fatal assassination attempt on Tempestra-Innara, Lys sees a glimmer of hope for her freedom.
Lys is chosen to hunt down the heretics and find an ancient reliquary with the power to kill a god. Annoyingly, she’s not alone. Paired with Nolan, a warrior from a rival cloister who is as pious as he is determined, Lys must feign devotion if she hopes to keep her own god-killing ambitions within reach.
But as they pursue the heretics linked to the assassination, Lys uncovers a world with more possibility—and peril—than she ever anticipated.
About Lyndsay Ely: Lyndsay spent her teenage years wanting to be a comic book artist but as it turned out, she couldn’t draw very well, so she began writing instead. She is a geek, a foodie, former publishing minion, and has never met an antique shop or flea market she didn’t like. Boston is the place she currently calls home, though she wouldn’t mind giving Paris a try someday.
Like many authors, she’d be thrilled if you purchased her books, but most especially if you get them from your local indie bookstore.
This week’s picks:

* Lyndsay: Goetze’s Pumpkin Pie Caramel Creams
* Tracy: Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things by Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant
* Patrick: Haxtec Spinner Dice 7-in-1 Metal DND Dice Set

Links:

* Lyndsay Ely on Instagram
* Tracy Townsend on BluSky
* Patrick Hester on Instagram
* The Functional Nerds Patreon Page

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