The Price of Life

In T.M. Nienaber's debut novel a country is on the verge of an apocalypse after a politician, Kristopher, seeks out the help of a necromancer, Lucian, to make a campaign promise no one can match. As the two begin to disagree on the way the country should be run their fragile truce comes to an end and the country is launched into a civil war between Lucian's undead army and Kristopher's military.While this war is raging around him Lucian hears rumors about a strange compound on the edge of civilization. This compound has recreated Victorian England to use as a backdrop for a murder game and fake vampires. This news leads him to go on a quest to discover the truth about his partner, and Kristopher's former assassin, who was supposedly killed by Kristopher's men at the beginning of their war.