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Incubus Rising (eBook)
| Incubus Rising | |
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 Incubus Rising eBook Cover, written by Mira Aswang | |
| Author(s) | Mira Aswang |
| Publisher | Amazon Digital Services |
| Publication date | January 17, 2026 |
| Media type | eBook |
| Length | 178 Pages |
| ASIN | B0GDTFR9PH |
For other uses of the word Incubus, see Incubus (disambiguation).
Incubus Rising is an eBook written by Mira Aswang. In this work one of the characters is an Incubus.
Overview
- Title: Incubus Rising
- Author: Mira Aswang
- Published By: Amazon Digital Services
- Length: 178 Pages
- Format: eBook
- ASIN: B0GDTFR9PH
- Publishing Date: January 17, 2026
Plot Summary
The island remembers every name spoken in fear - and every woman who dares to speak one back...
Lina Delos Santos has rehearsed her terror for eight long years. When a single message announces her husband’s return, she steps into Nanay Rosita’s crooked hut and takes a blood‑dark stone - a talisman pulsing with old promise and older debts. She whispers the forbidden name Maruz, a judgment‑bringer bound to the island’s pre‑colonial bargains.
The creature answers.
What follows is swift, merciless justice: a man erased, a life rewritten, and Lina walking free for the first time in years. But the protection Maruz offers lasts only a season. His presence heals her wounds and burns away pieces of her soul. Ligaya - the first woman to bleed for the bargain - haunts Lina’s dreams, and the Sisterhood’s covenant presses heavy against her palm.
As the island’s old stories rise from their dark places, Lina is drawn deeper into the grammar of talismans, the rituals of vengeance, and the dangerous tenderness of the being she summoned. Every miracle leaves a scar. Every judgment redraws the map of who is safe and who pays. And the season is ending. Now Lina must choose: feed the demon another man’s life to keep her sanctuary - or let Maruz fade back into the nether halls and face the world alone. To claim her power, she may have to ransom her humanity. To break the chain, she may lose the only protector she has ever known.
In a world where old gods wake hungry and women’s names can open wounds in reality, will Lina build a Sisterhood strong enough to change the island - or will her sanctuary become a graveyard of her own making?
Book Review
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