Wayne Mitchell drove long-haul out of Broken Hill for forty years. Then a bushfire took his rig, his body, and his whole life, and something on the far side of the smoke offered him a job no truckie was ever meant to hold: god of travellers, on the scorching continent of Kethara, where a caravan of two hundred desperate souls needs someone who knows how to get the load through.
The Travellers is progression fantasy for readers of Cradle and He Who Fights With Monsters, run on a divine economy instead of a system: every prayer feeds Wayne, every miracle spends him. There is no prophecy, no chosen one, and no dark lord. There is the desert, the oasis politics, and the long road to earned godhood. Eight books, complete.
The Books
Book 1
Dustwalker
A dying god, two hundred desperate travellers, and a killing desert between them and water. Wayne has a scrap of borrowed faith for fuel and forty years of knowing how to get the load through.
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Book 2
The Primer
The old pantheon calls him a joke and will not teach him the rules. Fine. Somewhere in a divine Library sits the book gods use to raise their own kind, and Wayne means to steal it.
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Book 3
The Foundation
Two years of running end with a decision no god makes: stop, and build a home. A coast, a sky, a spring, each guarded by something older, and every wall paid for out of Wayne's own memory.
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Book 4
The Rest
The city stands. That is the problem. A god who solves need threatens gods who sell it, and the Divine Council gives Wayne eight months to prove The Rest can hold, or watch it dissolve back into sand.
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Book 5
The Strike
The ledger says honest freight is bleeding the people who carry it. So the god of travellers stops the wagons, and finds out exactly what a cartel of merchant-gods will do about a strike.
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Book 6
The Coalition
Forty-three city guards want to defect and choose their god by what he does, not what he is. Eight old gods form a coalition to burn the idea out before it spreads. It has already spread.
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Book 7
The Sands
Ninety days until the continent turns to ash. Keth is killing the world rather than be forgotten, and he cannot be slain without burying everyone Wayne swore to protect. Time to write names on a list.
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Book 8
The Road
The road is finished, the ocean is asking to be crossed, and something older than the gods walks up the highway with an offer: the roads between the stars, at the cost of everyone he ever kept safe.
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