What happens when you combine Harry Potter with ?Invasion of the Body Snatchers? in the remote reaches of outer space? MADNESS RISING is a character-driven science fiction novel about a young woman living on a strangely Earth-like planet. Her colony is a college-like atmosphere, but things are far from the idyllic ivy-covered halls of old Earth: Nina Dreifuss faces her young adulthood antagonized by a serious medical condition, a drunken fiancé, a cruel mentor, and a bizarre series of body-snatchings of her loved-ones, leaving her alone, stricken with generalized anxiety disorder, and facing something that should?ve never been disturbed..