When the gods went to war, they shattered the world.

In their wake they left broken lands, ancient relics, and the lingering shadow of Coruk-Azul, the one-eyed god of death. Among those relics is the greatest of them all. The Scepter of Selene. Once a symbol of balance between gods and mortals. Now broken, its fragments scattered across a world still bleeding from wounds the gods left behind.

Endymion, a healer from distant Miletus, never sought war. But in Phanagoria, a Greek colony at the edge of civilization, destiny does not ask permission. Bound to an unlikely fellowship of warriors, outcasts, and survivors, Endymion must become more than a healer if any of them are going to live through what is coming.

What is coming has a name.

Vädumir. Cursed warlord. Undying conqueror. Vädumir has outlasted every kingdom that rose against him and left ruin where empires once stood. Vädumir does not negotiate. Vädumir does not tire. And Vädumir has been hunting the Scepter's fragments longer than most of his enemies have been alive.

If the Scepter is reforged, balance might return to a world that has forgotten what balance feels like.

Or it will awaken the shadow waiting beneath it.

If you love dark historical fantasy with celestial magic, fading gods, dragons, giants, and a tyrant vampire woven into a fast-paced thriller driven by looming deadlines, lethal secrets, and hidden identities, this is the story you have been waiting for.

Set among the real ancient cultures of the Black Sea, a mosaic of Greek mythology and Scythian horse-lord kingdoms, The Shadow and Scepter is a retelling of the myth of Endymion and Selene, reimagined at the edge of history.