Mindbond

In her enthralling Sea King fantasy trilogy, acclaimed, award-winning fantasist Nancy Springer imagines a once-great and teeming world that has been destroyed by a relentless malevolence, and sets two men on an impossible quest to save what remains. It is an epic tale of magic and madness, and of a poignant friendship stronger than time or destiny, unfolding against a brilliantly realized landscape of desolation and despair.
 
For Rad Korridun, king of the Seal Kindred tribe—one of the six surviving groups huddled between the plains and the sea—the fate of his people hangs in the balance as he scours an empty world for answers to the disappearance of the creatures of the wild. Meanwhile, Dannoc, mad prince of the Red Hart tribe, accused murderer, and devoted bond-brother to the sea king Kor, hunts for his forgotten past and the god who has abandoned him.
 
Springer creates a remarkably rich fantasy realm of peril and nightmare as two dedicated friends embark on a fantastic journey that will lead them over land and under water, through the ruins of the living and the land of the dead, and into the terrifying dominion of a spurned death goddess whose rage, pain, and vengeful love would devour the world.