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Once a healer. Now a prisoner. Her memories may be the key to saving—or dooming the world. Once a promising alchemist, Helena Marino is now a prisoner of war, of the new regime, and of her own fractured mind. The Resistance she once served has been annihilated. Her friends are dead. Her powers are suppressed. And the world she knew lies in ruins. In the shattered aftermath of a long and brutal conflict, Paladia’s new rulers—corrupt guild families and their army of necromancers reign through terror and the undead legions that secured their victory. According to Resistance records, Helena was a healer of little importance. But her captors suspect otherwise. The months leading up to her capture are missing from her memory, and whatever she’s forgotten might be the key to the Resistance’s final gambit. To unlock the truth, Helena is sent to the High Reeve, a powerful and merciless necromancer whose decaying estate hides as many secrets as its master. Trapped within his crumbling halls, Helena begins a perilous search for her lost past and for the truth of what she became before the war ended. But some memories are buried for a reason. And in a world built on bones and betrayal, remembering could be her undoing.