Man of Shadows

Darras was a veteran of a brutal five year war against a despicable yet powerful enemy. Ordered to hold for three days as the last of his defeated nation's people were loaded onto colonisation ships, he'd done the impossible and held for ten, leaving the invaders with nothing but an empty port and massive casualties. Their revenge was terrible, those few that survived the final onslaught were impaled before him even as he was tortured to try and reveal where his nation had fled. Finally, he died in agony, alone and mocked... and then discovered that death was not to be his, with a new life and a new challenge with the blessings of a goddess who needed his help.