Necromancer Nedra, master of an army of undead corpses, has triumphed over Governor Adelaide, the woman responsible for the spreading plague of Wasting Death. That illness killed Nedra's entire family, and it was only because of her alchemical powers that Nedra was able to reanimate her sister, Nessie. Now, Nedra need only think and her army will fight and destroy for her, mindless under her control. But Nessie has lost her soul, and the very sight of her little sister as an empty revenant drives Nedra to further necromancy. Meanwhile, Nedra's former lover, the aristocrat Grey Astor, attempts to help the city fight off death magic, even as his father and his friend are hunted for treason. Can Astor save Nedra from the darkness she's running toward? This follow up to Give the Dark My Love (2018) is filled with creeping dread, and readers who once championed Nedra will now watch her fall. Be sure to have this on the shelf ns of the first will want answers immediately.

Newly minted necromancer Nedra (Give the Dark My Love, rev. 9/18) has only one goal--to fully restore life to her twin sister, whom she had previously attempted to raise from the dead. Meanwhile, love interest Grey allies himself with the Emperor in hopes of attaining a pardon for Nedra, who is under penalty of death for necromancy. Their encounters are romantic (even steamy), but Grey's love for Nedra can't overcome his distaste for her magic. The Emperor's deviousness is greater than it seems: will Grey and Nedra resolve their differences before they each become a pawn in the Emperor's game? The horror that fueled the first book gets dialed back a notch here, making for somewhat more comfortable reading (though still delivering substantial dismemberments and executions), while the romance and the characters' individual struggles come to the foreground. At the end, Revis delivers a clever expansion of the premise, which ties together multiple plot threads to close the duology in unexpected and highly gratifying ways.