Author: C. S. E. Cooney

Saint Death – Book 1

A blackly funny, gloriously queer coming-of-age fantasy with love, beauty and necromancy by World Fantasy Award-winning author C.S.E. Cooney.

WINNER OF THE 2023 WORLD FANTASY AWAY FOR BEST NOVEL

Nothing complicates life like Death.

Lanie Stones, the daughter of crown-appointed killers, was born with a gift for necromancyand a literal allergy to violence. For her own safety, she was raised in isolation in a crumbling mansion by the familys mouldering revenant.

When Lanies parents are murdered, she and her psychotic sister Nita must settle their extensive debts or lose their ancestral home. When Liriats ruler, too, is murdered, it throws the whole nations future into doubt.

Hunted by Liriats enemies, terrorised by family ghosts and tortured by a forbidden love for a childhood friend, Lanie will need more than luck to get through the next few monthsbut when the goddess of Death is on your side, anything is possible.