The Risen
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Publisher Description
In ninety years of unbroken light, humans build great cities on the surface of Berun.
In ten years of darkness, monsters from Beneath destroy those cities—and those who dwell within them.
Only the Risen dead, who awaken when darkness floods the land, stand between the living and the beasts of Nightfell.
The caravan will have the herbs. That's what Dolen tells himself as he leaves his wife Rayli struggling to birth their first child. Without the herbs, she won't survive. But the healers are far away, up a steep mountain pass guarded by hungry insectoid beasts. In the last days of Nightfell, when the world has been dark and cold for a decade, Dolen must leave Rayli's side and brave the monsters of the night to save her life.
Sorreg lives safely within the desert city of Somteh, thanks to a peace treaty with the Beneathers. But the Risen are in rebellion, and Sorreg's scientific discovery has the potential to completely rewrite the relationship between the Risen and the living. But what cost is she willing to pay to continue the peace—and who is she willing to sacrifice?
As Dolen's journey leads him to Somteh, his path and Sorreg's intertwine—with the fate of the Risen on their shoulders.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Rich in science and mythology, this elegant sci-fi series launch from Vogel (Flamewalker) delights with strange aliens and a centuries-long love story. Eight suns keep the planet Ert in perpetual light for 90 years, until they all set for 10 years of Nightfell. Ert's human colonists segregate and disparage the Berunfolk, the indigenous insectoid life they disdainfully call the Beneathers. When humans die, they are revived to join the slave class called the Risen. Stronger than the living and impervious to pain, the Risen protect the colonists from the Berunfolk during Nightfell. But in the city of Somteh, tensions are running high as the Risen revolt against their owners and the Berunfolk agitate for control of their own planet. A new scientific discovery will either calm or exacerbate the powder keg: human biologist Sorreg and her Berunfolk assistant Kratch unearth a fungus spore that compels the Risen to obey all orders given to them. Caught in the middle of the unrest is undead Dolan, who searches for his Risen wife, Rayli, unaware that she has become a freedom fighter for the Risen. Vogel probes class struggle, xenophobia, and exploitation within a dense science mystery tightly entwined with an enduring love story. Readers will be wowed by this ambitious and fulfilling adventure.
