TO RISE FROM DEATH: Book 1 of the Tragedy of Liana Incubore
Liana Incubore is dying, and nothing will save her. Neither magic nor medicine can cure the illness ravaging her body, so she is left with no other recourse than to do it herself. By combining her independent research of medicine and magic, and with the help of her war-veteran sister and a group of magic students, she seeks to invent a new form of magic to fix herself, and maybe fix the world.
TO RISE FROM DEATH is the debut novel from Gwendolyn Gunn, re-released here as an Anniversary Edition with brand new chapters including a completely rewritten first act, and heavy rewrites to expand and enrich her fantasy world. TO RISE FROM DEATH, like its sequels, is a character-driven story of death, loss, and purpose featuring a reforged, intricate, unique fantasy world, LGBT characters, and dark themes, with elements of body horror, existential dread, violence and vengeance, death and loss, and what it means to chase one's self-made glorious purpose, damn the consequences.