We’re delighted to share the cover for the paperback of C. S. E. Cooney’s stunning debut novel, Saint Death’s Daughter!
The wicked abandon of Gideon the Ninth meets the whimsy of The Last Unicorn in this tale of a necromancer with an allergy to violence who chooses gentleness again and again.
Saint Death’s Daughter will be released in paperback on 14 February 2023.
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.
“Grisly, dark, lovely, funny, heartfelt.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Saint Death’s Daughter exemplifies what fantasy can do in the best of ways.” — Strange Horizons
“Every character arrives in a burst: fully-realized, always finding their mark, dripping with detail and a fire in their heart.” — Tor.com
“I loved Saint Death’s Daughter to pieces.” — Katherine Addison
“Saint Death’s Daughter is a tumultuous, swaggering, cackling story, a gorgeous citrus orchard with bones for roots. Miscellaneous Stones’ journey into adulthood and power, sorting knowledge from wisdom and vengeance from justice, has an ocean’s breadth and depth, its storms and sparkles and salt. Soaring with love and absolutely fizzing with tenderness and joy–I have never read anything so utterly alive.” — Amal El-Mohtar
“I don’t want to tell you much about this book. I want you to experience it the way I did; a cake whose every layer is more delicious than the last; a gemstone that always has another glittering facet when you turn it over in your hands; a gift that never stops giving. This is a book you should go into unprepared – and unarmed.” — Every Book A Doorway
