Alchemised SIGNED FIRST EDITION

First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by SenLinYu in ink to signature page specially bound in by the publisher. Stated first edition, with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/2" X 6 3/8". 1030pp. Gentle shelfwear to dust jacket, with Signed Copy sticker to front panel. Bound in black paper over boards with dragon stamped in gilt to upper board and spine lettered in kind. Gentle edgewear to binding. Binding is firm, tight, and sound. Pages are clean, bright, and unmarked. A highly presentable signed first edition of this #1 New York Times Bestselling dark romantic fantasy by SenLinYu, featuring a deluxe jacket with gold foil on the front and a full-color illustration on the reverse, gorgeous designed endpapers, a gold foil case stamp, and, from acclaimed artist Avendell, a black-and-white interior illustration. ABOUT THIS BOOK: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? In this riveting dark fantasy debut, a woman with missing memories fights to survive a war-torn world of necromancy and alchemy-and the man tasked with unearthing the deepest secrets of her past. This stunning hardcover edition features a deluxe jacket with gold foil on the front and a full-color illustration on the reverse, gorgeous designed endpapers, a gold foil case stamp, and, from acclaimed artist Avendell, a black-and-white interior illustration. "What is it you think you're protecting in that brain of yours? The war is over. Holdfast is dead. The Eternal Flame extinguished. There's no one left for you to save." Once a promising alchemist, Helena Marino is now a prisoner-of war and of her own mind. Her Resistance friends and allies have been brutally murdered, her abilities suppressed, and the world she knew destroyed. In the aftermath of a long war, Paladia's new ruling class of corrupt guild families and depraved necromancers, whose vile undead creatures helped bring about their victory, holds Helena captive. According to Resistance records, she was a healer of little importance within their ranks. But Helena has inexplicable memory loss of the months leading up to her capture, making her enemies wonder: Is she truly as insignificant as she appears, or are her lost memories hiding some vital piece of the Resistance's final gambit? To uncover the memories buried deep within her mind, Helena is sent to the High Reeve, one of the most powerful and ruthless necromancers in this new world. Trapped on his crumbling estate, Helena's fight-to protect her lost history and to preserve the last remaining shreds of her former self-is just beginning. For her prison and captor have secrets of their own . . . secrets Helena must unearth, whatever the cost.…