Lauryn Allman

A pansexual bloodmage reluctantly teams up with an undead spirit to start a rebellion among the living and the dead, in this dark YA fantasy by A.M. Strickland, author of Beyond the Black Door, whom Richard Kadrey calls "a storyteller of both grace and power."
In Thanopolis, those gifted with magic are assigned undead spirits to guard them—and control them. Ever since Rovan's father died trying to keep her from

NATURE IS CALLING—but they shouldn't have answered.
"A compulsive page-turner mixing supernatural survival horror and ... adventure." — Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Pallbearers' Club
Travel journalist and mountaineer Nick Grevers awakes from a coma to find that his climbing buddy, Augustin, is missing and presumed dead. Nick's own injuries are as extensive as they are horrifying.