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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.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43128123654322,"sku":"9781786188526","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781786188526.jpg?v=1786026072"},{"product_id":"9781837864492","title":"Saint Death's Herald","description":"* WORLD FANTASY AWARD WINNING SERIES *'Warm, crackling, snapping from time to time to keep you on your toes' - REACTOR 'Effervescent, glittering, as fizzy and breathtaking as a shower of shooting stars' - EVERY BOOK A DOORWAY 'Cooney's prose is top-notch' - DISTORTED VISIONS 'Cooney nails the ending' - SKIFFY AND FANTY SHOWLANIE STONES IS THE NECROMANCER THAT DEATH HAS BEEN PRAYING FORHeartbroken, exiled from her homeland as a traitor, Lanie Stones would rather take refuge in good books and delicate pastries than hunt a deathless abomination, but that is the duty she has chosen.The abomination in question happens to be her own great-grandfather, the powerful necromancer Irradiant Stones. Grandpa Rad has escaped from his prison and stolen a body, and is heading to the icy country of Skakhmat where he died, to finish the genocide he started. Fortunately for her, Lanie has her powerful death magic, including the power to sing the restless dead to their eternal slumber; and she has her new family by her side.Grandpa Rad may have finally met his match.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55206341116277,"sku":"9781837864492","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781837864492_b21157ee-0273-412a-a175-f68e6762b59f.jpg?v=1786027976"},{"product_id":"9781732644045","title":"Dark Breakers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWorld Fantasy Award finalist for Best Story Collection\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLocus Award finalist for Best Story Collection\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Welcome to a Gilded Era like you've never before known and will never be able to forget ... If Titania herself were to commission a book, it would be this one.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e-Fran Wilde, two-time Nebula Award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eUpdraft\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRiverland\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Cooney's lush follow-up to \u003cem\u003eDesdemona and the Deep\u003c\/em\u003e offers five stories linked by an intricate shared world ... Throughout, Cooney's descriptions are extravagant and gorgeous, and the musical cadence of her prose makes it exceptionally easy to be drawn into the worlds she weaves ... Romantic fantasy readers will find a lot to love.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA young human painter and an ageless gentry queen fall in love over spilled wine-at the risk of his life and her immortality. 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