The Goddess of Death — Peter Krausche

It's the spring of 1997 in Bend, Oregon, and Theresa has grown into a bright but treacherously beautiful young woman. But she would gladly sacrifice her long, golden locks and dark blue eyes to get rid of her ghastly premonitions. Things get worse when her latest vision of a double homicide comes true right in the town where she lives. As the bodies start piling up, she and her friends must figure out why this cross-state serial killer is mutilating their victims in the most horrific way and try to stop them before more people are killed.On Chyoradan, the High Priestess Tamenisa Larutas must comfort her friend Tura, whose husband was murdered when he tried to secure information that could help them expose the sinister machinations of the elders of the Advisory Council. Tamenisa believes she can only save the situation by donning the guise of the Nightwraith, a mythical figure from the time of the Piralian Civil War 4,500 years ago. Through her nightly escapades, she hopes to gather enough evidence to stop their enemies and save herself and her friends.Meanwhile, 4,500 years earlier on Piral, the Selanian Conference in Tolares is over after only one day, making it clear that the leaders of the Western Alliance were never interested in constructive participation but had always planned to sabotage the proceedings. Now Nova must warn the population that an army of roughly 50,000 troops will march upon their city within a week, and they don't even remotely have the amount of resources they need to stand against them.But because of what happened to her twenty years ago, Nova feels broken and doesn't know how to cope with her feelings for the young Lord Tolares, making it difficult for her to concentrate on the immense task at hand. When she hears of a sinister figure, who their enemies call the Nightwraith and who has been killing off members of the Black Guard to avenge the atrocities they committed, Nova knows that the Goddess of Death has already been awakened, and the time when her wrath will be unleashed is swiftly approaching.