Nienna. Blessed by Death

Young Nienna Antarskaya runs from an unwanted marriage to the Academy of Combat, Healing, and Special Arts in the capital city of Ahenburg. But they won’t take a skinny girl into the combatists, and she doesn’t want to be a healer either. There’s only one option left—to become a necromancer’s assistant, a servant of the Merciful Death. Fighting vampires, werewolves, and other unclean things alongside her friend-valkyrie Gerda, mastering the tricky science of sealing the dead—and searching across the world for her beloved with a fiery heart, foretold to her by a shaman…