Death's Daughter
The steamy mythology of Neon Gods meets dark academia in this contemporary romance from USA Today bestselling author S.A. Barnes.
Jocasta’s carved out a normal life at Beecher University—well, as normal as possible with a name like Jocasta and being the only child of Death.
She has good friends and a messy situationship with her former TA. But her friends, her crush, and her classmates don’t know the truth about who—what—she is. They would be horrified to discover Jo must feed to survive—and she feeds on them. But she refuses to take lives, feasting instead on their disappointments, failures, and rejections. It’s not a perfect system, but it works.
Until a sexy stranger—and descendant of Lust—shows up on campus because Death just named Jo as his successor, making her a powerful ally and a massive target.
Jo’s safe little bubble is about to burst, but she will do anything to protect the people she loves. Even if it means becoming what she hates…
S.A. Barnes
In the quiet corridors of a high school library in Illinois, where forgotten bookmarks include everything from notes to cheese sticks, S.A. Barnes plots tales of cosmic terror and claustrophobic dread. Best known for her chilling breakout novel Dead Silence, Barnes has carved a niche in the growing subgenre of sci-fi horror—where the silence of space isn't peaceful, it's menacing.
Before ghosts drifted through derelict starliners in her fiction, she spent years writing under her real name, Stacey Kade, crafting young adult stories filled with heart and humor. But the darker corners of her imagination—fed by early encounters with V.C. Andrews and Stephen King—eventually demanded a new outlet. Under her Barnes pseudonym, she delves into the psychological tension of isolation, the terror of the unknown, and the thin, fraying line between truth and hallucination.

