Chance Kyrien is turning seventeen, and on this day he’ll be confirmed as a Puriman and find out the shape of his life to come. Young Chance can be ambitious, rebellious, but also fiercely devout, and his only thoughts are about farming and wine-making . . . and marrying the girl he loves. However in a surprising burst of violence, Chance’s dreams are shattered. Right now he must survive against hellish forces to handle his greatest foe: a long-forgotten god whose future is intertwined along with his own.