The Mourning Lily

Does blood make a hero?A professional fighter, Tuesday Graves has built her life around a simple principle: don't letanyone come close enough to hurt you. It's a rule she applies to her personal life too.Surviving on the margins of a decaying city, she fights for money and keeps the world atarm's length. Then the one person she loves, the only one she trusts, hands her over toMattox, the leader of a militant sect chasing the power of the Ancients.Held captive for months, then subjected to a genetic experiment, Tuesday changes. So dofour other prisoners who shared her fate. With new abilities, new instincts, and no way backto their old lives, the group manage to escape - only to find themselves struggling to understand what they've become and what, if anything, they owe a world that neverprotected them.Tense, melancholic, and ultimately hopeful, The Mourning Lily is a sciencefantasy adventure brimming with themes of found family, feminine rage, and heroes whograpple with putting themselves first, or last.