CATHEDRAL NEAR THE SEA Open Novella Contest 2024

CATHEDRAL NEAR THE SEA — open novella contest 2024

genre. fantasy / historical / romance / lgbt+ audience. new adult / adult point of view. third person content notes. aftermath of torture by solitary confinement, past abuse/non-con, shifting power dynamics. more may be added. summary.

After an ancient goddess is freed from her eternal torment, a young Inquisitor finds that her entire life is based on a lie. And with war on the horizon, her decisions now may change the course of fate.

Sabine Castelle has spent her life serving the Lonely God, the one true creator. She is now a Holy Inquisitor, one of the most powerful positions in the Celestial Church, and the youngest ever to rise so high. Sent to the seaside city of Vadua to oversee the blessing and renovation of an archaic temple to the old gods into a new cathedral, Sabine expects it to be a simple matter.

But when she follows a path leading deep beneath the ruins, she finds room containing the impossible - a living woman.

A goddess.

Zosai doesn't know how long she's been powerless, trapped beneath the temple that once held her worshipers. Betrayed and imprisoned by the man she once loved, the only thing she cares for is revenge. Now freed, she will do anything it takes to regain her former power and wreak vengeance on her enemies.

Can Sabine stop her?

Does she even want to?

find this story on wattpad.

but you can't keep holding on like this.