Melanie Card Ward Against Death

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Ward deAth expected this to be a simple jobbring a noblemans daughter back from the dead for fifteen minutes, let her family say good-bye, and launch his fledgling career as a necromancer. Goddess knows he cant be a surgeonthe Quayestri already branded him a criminal for tryingso bringing people back from the dead it is.But when Ward wakes the beautiful Celia Carlyle, he gets more than he bargained for. Insistent that shes been murdered, Celia begs Ward to keep her alive and help her find justice. By the time she drags him out her bedroom window and into the sewers, Ward cant bring himself to break his damned physicians Oath and desert her.However, nothing is as it seemsincluding Celia. One second, shes treating Ward like sewage, the next shes kissing him. And for a noblemans daughter, she sure has a lot of enemies. If he could just convince his heart to give up on the infuriating beauty, he might get out of this alive