“What is it you think you’re protecting in that brain of yours? The waris over. Holdfast is dead. The Eternal Flame extinguished. There’s noone left for you to save. ”Once a promising alchemist, Helena Marino is now a prisoner—of war andof her own mind. Her Resistance friends and allies have been brutallymurdered, her abilities suppressed, and the world she knew destroyed. In the aftermath of a long war, Paladia’s new ruling class of corruptguild families and depraved necromancers, whose vile undead creatureshelped bring about their victory, holds Helena captive. According to Resistance records, she was a healer of little importancewithin their ranks. But Helena has inexplicable memory loss of themonths leading up to her capture, making her enemies wonder: Is shetruly as insignificant as she appears, or are her lost memories hidingsome vital piece of the Resistance’s final gambit? To uncover the memories buried deep within her mind, Helena is sent tothe High Reeve, one of the most powerful and ruthless necromancers in this new world. Trapped on his crumbling estate, Helena’s fight—toprotect her lost history and to preserve the last remaining shreds ofher former self—is just beginning. For her prison and captor havesecrets of their own . . . secrets Helena must unearth, whatever t(más...)
