The Tortured Wind (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780648544401)

In the millennia since leaving Old Earth, humans have spread far and wide across the galaxy. A pantheon of sub-level gods was created to oversee the expanding population, always to protect them out of sight, never to become one of them -- and never to experience love. Or so they thought.

Callista, a mortal woman, spends her nights fighting for the glory of her gang. She trusts her gang with her life, but she can never tell them about her strange powers or the visions she has of a faceless man. Sandsa, the god of deserts, was designed to rule over the sands and those living on them. But Sandsa has grown tired of his role in the Galactic Pantheon and so abandons his duties to seek the woman who haunts his dreams.

Once united in their waking hours, he and Callista discover that following your dreams has consequences. Their love plunges a city into an all-out war and incites the wrath of Sandsa's brothers and sisters, who believe that the deserts must have their god. And they'll stop at nothing to make Sandsa return.

Sandsa and Callista find themselves facing a pantheon of gods -- but even if they win, they risk losing everything they have built together.