Sere became Goddess Death the night she used a relic of the gods, sacrificing her best friend to save her dying lover, but her actions cursed them all. To stop the deathless pirate king she created, Sere must choose between surrendering herself to divine balance or, once again, use the forbidden relic to save the man she loves, knowing, this time, the debt will be reaped from her magic and bloodline.

GODDESS DEATH blends the culturally grounded mythic scope of Rebecca Roanhorse's BETWEEN EARTH AND SKY trilogy for its mythic, pre-Columbian-inspired worldbuilding and Hannah Kaner's GODKILLER for its god-haunted atmosphere and the consequences of forbidden power. Centered on redemption, sacred trials, hidden truths, and a bittersweet outlaw ending.

SERE ANEHITA, daughter of the Mizmaze Fae, gave it all for the sickly human she loved. Her soul was forever branded as a murderer and a traitor in this and the next life as she stole and corrupted a weapon of the gods. Her lover, LAMARC, was poisoned by the power and Sere fled, but not before stealing the gods’ relic from him.

Years later, the Retumbre ship, under Captain Sere’s command is the only known vessel to have faced pirate waters and survived. Docked at a port in the country of Encanto, a warrior, YAEL, hires them to ferry passengers and goods to the city of Cauta, where the primary ruling Cacique of Encanto resided. The reward: whatever Sere wanted.

Upon embarking nothing goes to plan and Sere is stranded with Yael in a jungle facing a Goddess' test of worthiness, made deadlier by Sere's bond with the power of the gods and the object of power Yael carries around his neck.

Alliances are made as an unlikely bond is formed through survival and revealed truths as they transverse each test, but a shadow grows in the background. Lamarc, king of the La Muerte pirates, haunts the seas, eager to take revenge for what Sere did to him, and take the power of the gods for himself.