The Tome of Flesh - The Vothan Guard, #1

PAGES OF PEELED SKIN-taken from the depraved, the decadent, and the doomed. Once a piece of the body is torn off and bound between its sticky covers, the rest never knows independence, is enslaved to the will of the Tome of Flesh. Its cultists will do anything, no matter how treacherous or gruesome. WORDS OF THE DAMNED - the souls of those slain in the service of the Tome speak through it still. Their lies call across the world, luring the greedy and ambitious into its never-dying schemes.
Through them it will tear apart clans, destabilize empires, and rend civilization to pieces. WAITING FOR A FOOL - time means nothing to the Tome. It can wait. There's always another weakling of stunted dreams and toxic jealousy waiting to crack its covers, thinking to open their own path to glory. In fact, such fools make their way to it even now.