The Judges Chronicles: The Burning Son (Book 2)

With a sick wife at home, Barrachus, a local idol maker in Shavron, needs money to get medicine for his wife. Customers are few, money is short, and time for his wife is running out. A stranger from a foreign land commissions him to create a mysterious idol made of ivory for the hefty payment of— one million pounds of gold!

Problem solved.

But the following day, Barrachus's only child is kidnapped right before his eyes to be burnt as an offering to a wicked tyrant. The promise of gold is gone...