Whenever a stranger gives Analiese Jordan a list of names just before he dies, the last thing she desires to see is her own onto it. Not. Cool. Her seek out answers leads towards the man’s grandson, Marek, who has dangerous secrets of his own. Both are established to unlock the mystery from the list. But the truth is deadly. Analiese is normally a descendant from the God of Death, known as a Riser, with the energy to improve the lifeless and control them. Finding out she has concealed powers? Cool. Learning she changes corpses into killers? No, thank you. Now the path vegetation her and Marek in the middle of a war between gods who evidently want to improve an army from the Risen, and Analiese must figure out how to save the world-from herself.