The Chains of Malice: A Sci-Fantasy Action Thriller (Those Who Suffer)

Caught between a will-robbing disease and a ruthless scientist, a young asylum inmate bites off more than she can chew. Curiesay has been locked up at the Wilted Rose Asylum since she was a child, and she wants out. When she's offered her freedom in exchange for becoming a warrior for humanity, she can't help but say yes. The job isn't as simple as she had thought. Mankind's greatest foe, a will-robbing disease called the Blight, has awoken. Curiesay is forced to use an armored exoskeleton called an Arbiter which demands a painful bargain-sanity for strength. More threatening than the Blight is the relentlessly cheery and maniacal Doctor Chandrima Joshi, the world's leading authority on the Blight and Commander of the Pilot Regiment.