First Principles

A Cozy Crafting Fantasy

Dr. Lena Vasik, a hospital pharmacist from Cleveland, dies in a chemical storage explosion and wakes up in a medieval fantasy world where alchemy has been outlawed for three hundred years. The world now runs on Resonance, a magic system controlled by bonded crystals that the ruling caste monopolizes. But Lena has a modern chemistry education, and chemistry IS alchemy. The periodic table maps onto elemental affinities. Stoichiometry governs transmutation ratios. She doesn't swing a sword. She brews. And what she brews threatens the power structure of the entire continent.