Mara Sorn has spent her entire life being told she is Hollow.
In a world where divine magic powers kingdoms, heals the dying, and crowns the powerful, Mara possesses the one gift nobody wants?Grace dies when she touches it. She has no prophecy attached to her name, no secret royal bloodline, and no reason to believe she matters.
Until she touches the heart of a murdered god.
The relic disappears into her body.
Then it starts beating.
Suddenly, Mara can hear the voices of gods humanity claims were destroyed centuries ago. Their powers are awakening inside her. So are their memories. And every new ability comes with a price that could destroy her long before she learns what she has become.
Now the Crown wants her contained. The Church wants to use her. And the four dangerous men assigned to control the situation have been given very different orders.
Rowan Vale is the disciplined commander who believes rules keep people alive. Soren Hale is a charming thief who always knows where the exits are. Elias Corven is the brilliant scholar who may understand Mara better than she understands herself?and is hiding an order that could shatter her trust. Finn Rusk is the silent former executioner carrying the simplest command of all:
If a god takes control of Mara, kill her.
But the deeper Mara digs into the history of the fallen gods, the more the empire's sacred story begins to unravel.
The gods were not defeated the way humanity remembers.
The men surrounding her were not brought together by accident.
And Mara was never powerless.
She may be the one thing the rulers of Valdyr have feared for three hundred years?the woman capable of deciding whether gods should rise again at all.
Because everyone wants something from the power growing inside her.
The gods want freedom.
The Church wants obedience.
The Crown wants control.
The four men at her side want her alive.
But Mara is beginning to want something far more dangerous.
To belong to no one but herself.
The Gods They Buried in Me is a dark, addictive why-choose romantasy filled with forbidden gods, dangerous magic, slow-burn tension, morally complicated heroes, found family, ancient conspiracies, devastating secrets, and a heroine who refuses to become anyone's weapon.
