Little Gods — Andrew Levkoff

In a quiet village on a lonely mountain in the Mesopotamian desert, two births will come to shape the destiny of nations. One boy will be blessed, the other branded. Would their strangeness unite them, or twist them into mortal enemies? As the boys struggle to make sense of a world that shuns the other, as they fight for the one girl they both desire, they will turn to their gods, only to discover that immortals are as fallible as men.