Rifter

When John opens a letter addressed to his missing roommate, Kyle, he expects to find a house key, but instead he is swept into a strange realm of magic, mysticism, revolutionaries and assassins. Though he struggles to escape, John is drawn steadily closer to a fate he share with Kyle-to wake the destroyer god, the Rifter, and shatter a world.

Once, Kahlil was a divine assassin, tasked with killing a god to protect his holy order. But the Rifter escaped through the Great Gates. When Kahlil attempts to follow him, he is left injured and uncertain of his place in a world he no longer recognizes as his own. Now, just when Kahlil has forged a new life for himself, the Rifter reappears as a powerful leader at the center of an assassination plot. And, ironically, Kahlil finds himself tasked with saving the man who destroyed his world.

Ripped from his home on Earth, John has survived for years in the magical world of Basawar by avoiding confrontations and fitting in. He knows that he's on the verge of returning home, if he can only manage to keep hiding a little longer. But as his relationships within the mystic Payshmura order grow more passionate, so too do his conflicts.When another witch is condemned to burn at the Harvest Fair, John can't stop himself from taking action. Soon he's caught up in a battle that threatens to expose all his secrets and cost him his life.