The Guardian

A god who can bleed, is a god who can die.

The Ancient Egyptians proclaimed Osiris as both the God of the Dead, and the Lord of the Resurrection. Life and death require balance - a truth he has always known but a reality he's heretofore been able to outrun. Following the events of 12.21.12, however, the stasis caused by his desire to protect his half-human lover, Victoria Kent, and to return home to save his own people proves his undoing. The guilt of his past failings casts shadows over what had begun to seem a bright future, as he, Victoria, and her pet humans attempt to decode a mysterious series of messages written in an alien tongue and invoking the names of his slain kin. Are they from Ra, prince of the Altunai who seeks vengeance against Osiris for killing his sister, Isis, and marooning him on Earth? Or is it possible that their new foe is the same ancient warrior who once nearly claimed the life of the God? Does he leave Earth to the vices of his civilization, or destroy his own civilization to save it from itself?

Can a man who isn't even human, find his humanity in time to decide, or will the consequences of his past and his own impossible inner conflicts destroy the world?

THE GUARDIAN is the sequel to 12.21.12: THE VESSEL, and the second installment in the Altunai Annals trilogy.