Veyra has always trusted Eda to count what enters, what leaves, and what refuses to match. Then a black moon hatches over the hills, a stranger falls from its shell, and the village begins coming apart at the seams. Roads forget where they lead. A river climbs a mountain. Angels steal a word. A king's lies grow horns. Beneath roots, graves, kitchens, and abandoned countries, lives the world misplaced begin pressing upward. As Eda follows the disturbances beyond Veyra, her gift for keeping people from disappearing becomes both refuge and danger.

Beside her are a formidable widow, an unownable black lamb, and impossible companions with unfinished histories. Every rescue asks the same quiet question: who gets to decide what another life must become? Funny, uncanny, and mythic, RISING is a story of memory, belonging, ordinary bread, impossible weather, and a village learning that what returns does not necessarily return to be reclaimed.