The Becoming — Bruce Jones

Banished from the world of the living, the evil spirit of Vile lives on. But now, after a millennium of imprisonment within his rune-warded tomb, a key has been found. A key to freedom. A key to revenge.Far from her home in Turien, the sheltered Princess Fayah finds herself on an unexpected journey through exotic lands of the west to witness first hand the Great Rift ? that bottomless chasm at the end of the world. But when Fayah is captured by a goblin horde, her dreams quickly turn to nightmares as Vile's dark magic changes her forever.Tanner; quixotic, brash, and the best swordsman in the land. Dundermin; surly leader of the Highland dwarves. And Princess Fayah; heir apparent to the throne. In a fight against harrowing creatures, undead sorcerers, and possessed madmen, these three heroes are all that stand between their world and the evil that lives in... The Great Rift.