The Last Dai'akan: The Otai Cycle, Book One

The mighty Aatma has fallen, and Empress Inalda has lost her main supplier and is forced to sponsor new dungeons to fuel her army's expansion. Gabriel Shook intends to rise to the occasion, but he is broke and must buy second-hand minions from a consignment store to defend his new dungeon. All he can afford is a half-skeleton, rat, and cursed zombie. Half a world away, Talia lives in paradise, but a betrayal threatens her way of life and sets a collision of destinies into motion. Can they both survive the machinations of the Empress and the guilds? What will happen when the otai flows?