Award-winning author Jedediah Berry and bespoke barbarian Gotchimus return in Devouring Gods, an action-packed sword & sorcery heist. To steal their prize from the goddess of keys, Gotch's crew face battle-nuns, drunken gentry, and giant frogs in evening wear.

They’re off to steal a wizard!

The noble families of Inwardly have gathered for the social event of the season. Hosted by the captive goddess Culavu and her devoted warrior nuns, the Festival of Keys offers the rich and powerful a chance to dine on choice morsels and amuse themselves with age-old sorceries. And this year’s special guest is a spectacle like no other: Gotchimus, the great barbarian, the wizard slayer.

While his hosts debauch themselves, Gotchimus has bigger plans. Trapped in Culavu’s prison realm is a wizard possessing knowledge he and his allies need. To free him, the barbarian will have to outwit the nobles, protect his own dark secret, and turn the party of the year into the heist of the century.

And somehow he has to pull it all off without killing the wizard.

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Jedediah Berry

Some writers build worlds that feel larger than life. Jedediah Berry has a talent for making the world itself feel slightly askew, as though reality has shifted a few inches to the side and nobody noticed except the reader. His fiction occupies a fascinating space between fantasy, mystery, literary fiction, and dreamlike surrealism, creating stories that invite curiosity while quietly unsettling expectations. Born in the United States and drawn to storytelling from an early age, Berry developed a literary voice shaped by both imaginative fiction and a deep appreciation for language itself. Before gaining recognition as a novelist, he worked…