In the Shadow of a Mantled God

The weapon at the heart of Kilimanjaro has been destroyed. Half of the Australian team that entered the mountain didn't come back out. As the gods ready to move on Olympus, something ancient beyond reckoning rises from the deep to make war on the world.

Joshua Dare has survived werewolf transformations, divine trials and the deaths of those he loved most. But nothing has prepared him for this. Cthulhu, the great old one, a cosmic horror older than the gods themselves, has surfaced off the coast of Australia. The fate of every living soul rests on the shoulders of a man who was never meant to be a hero.

Melissa Pythia, wrestling with a fate she won't accept, is forced to seek an alliance with her enemy, the angels of Heaven. The clue to defeating this new threat might lie with their creator. With Jesse Billiau at her side, they begin a quest to find God himself.

Alliances fracture and reform. Angels descend. Olympians clash. As Sydney burns beneath tentacles and star spawn, Josh, Mel, Jesse and the rest of the AST must push past every limit they have ever known to stand at the front of a last desperate charge against a force that cannot be reasoned with, bargained with or stopped.

In the Shadow of a Mantled God is the fifth instalment of J.A. Preston's Old World Saga. Bigger in scale, darker in tone and relentless in pace, this is the book where the series earns everything it has been building towards.

About the Old World Saga

The divine awakens, and so do the things that wait beyond the stars.

When an Australian traveller named Joshua Dare survives a chance encounter with creatures from myth on the island of Corfu, he inherits a curse born of Zeus and sets in motion a chain of events that will pull gods, angels, monsters and mortals into the greatest conflict the world has never known existed.

The Old World Saga fuses mythology, cosmic horror and action across a cast of unforgettable characters, building towards an epic reckoning between the old powers of the world and the things that predate them. The series is available now.