He only wanted a life where he would stop running from himself.
But when Lucian Bowcott goes out drinking with his friends, he dies after taking one sip.
He has been summoned into Atreaum as its new court mortician, by the Half-Dead Queen Marguerite. Lucian expects to be knee-deep in embalming fluid and corpses--not a world where death has been removed entirely.
But when Lucian rings a forbidden bell in Staesis and breaks the illusion, he awakens something more dangerous than ghosts: memory.
Now hunted by the very Queen who gave him his title, shadowed by a stitched girl born from someone else's grief, and pursued by a Spymaster who trades in secrets and souls, Lucian finds himself unraveling both the world’s systems — and himself.
As he uncovers the truth behind the Mortician’s legacy, an orchard that grows from sorrow, and a forgotten Daughter who was never meant to choose love, Lucian must decide what kind of death is worth writing…
…and which ones deserve to live.
light not gory, sometimes funny, engaging that makes you wonder what place the reader will be brought to next and what will happen there...
following this novel's progress, intrigued...
compelling and interesting, makes me want to read more....