Saint Death's Daughter: World Fantasy Award Winner
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* WINNER OF THE 2023 WORLD FANTASY AWAY FOR BEST NOVEL *
'Wildly inventive' - BUZZFEED
'Beautiful and intricate and glowing' - COLORADO SUN
'Every character arrives dripping with detail and a fire in their heart' - REACTOR
'Exemplifies what fantasy can do in the best of ways' - STRANGE HORIZONS
'Grisly, dark, lovely, funny, heartfelt' - KIRKUS
NOTHING COMPLICATES LIFE LIKE DEATH
Lanie Stones, the daughter of crown-appointed killers, was born with a gift for necromancy - and a literal allergy to violence. For her own safety, she was raised in isolation in a crumbling mansion by the family's mouldering revenant.
When Lanie's parents are murdered, she and her psychotic sister Nita must settle their extensive debts or lose their ancestral home. When Liriat's ruler, too, is murdered, it throws the whole nation's future into doubt.
Hunted by Liriat's 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 months-but when the goddess of Death is on your side, anything is possible.
C. S. E. Cooney
C.S.E. Cooney lives and writes in the Borough of Queens, whose borders are water. She is an audiobook narrator, the singer/songwriter Brimstone Rhine, and author of World Fantasy Award-winning Bone Swans: Stories (Mythic Delirium 2015). Her short fiction can be found in Ellen Datlow’s Mad Hatters and March Hares: All-New Stories from the World of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, Jonathan Strahan’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 12, Paula Guran’s 2016 The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas, five editions of Rich Horton’s Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, Mike Allen’s Clockwork Phoenix Anthology (3 and 5), Lightspeed Magazine, Strange Horizons, Apex, Uncanny Magazine Black Gate, Papaveria Press, GigaNotoSaurus, The Mammoth Book of Steampunk, and elsewhere.
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