Author: Kerry Williams
Title: Daughter of the Drowned
Series: The Darkness Duet, #1
Genre: Dark Romantic Fantasy
Release Date: February 20, 2025
Publisher: Hot Tree Publishing
Cover Designer: BookSmith Design
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A broken young woman will stop at nothing to discover why she’s being haunted, even if that means storming the Underworld to face off with Death himself.
Twenty-one-year-old Lovely Timms hasn’t always been afflicted with otherworldly visions; in fact, it’s only these last four years that have been a haze of addiction and denial since she drowned.
Only when she’s visited by an apparition of her father does she finally begin to believe her hauntings are real. Desperate to discover why she is plagued by the dead, she travels to the occult-filled city of New Orleans with childhood best friend, Tino, by her side. Though, as her abilities grow, so does the icy herald of Death.
Death with a face, a name, and a delicious voice with which to beckon her.
Death calls to Lovely, will he get to keep her?
Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and V.E Schwab, those who like their romantic fantasy with a side of gore, childhood friends to lovers, Death as a love interest, and their romance with more steam and less spice.
‘Death,’ he whispers, bowing his head near to my own. ‘A Death who has a voice to call your name, who has hands with which to hold you under. Death with a form, the shape of a man, a man who wants you. Someone in whose arms you’ll feel no pain.’
‘Are you jealous of Death?’ I say before I think better of it.
‘I’m trying to understand why you would do this, why you would run straight into the arms of a being we suspect of drowning you, not once but twice. And now, what? You’re giving him what he wants on a silver platter? Lee, what could he possibly tell you that would make any of this better?’
‘At least I wouldn’t be in the dark anymore. I would know my role.’
‘Why do you even want one?’
‘I-I—’ I choke on my words because the answer is so complicated, even my own mind struggles to untangle its desires. I never chose this, but turning back no longer appeals to me. Barrier after barrier is breaking. I’m now more inclined to allow myself to be propelled forward, wishing more and more to learn what’s at the finish line.
Kerry Williams is a UK author based in the heart of England and writer of romantic fantasy novels.
Copywriter by day, she gets lost in a world of magic at night, either in her writing or in what she reads. Her creative roots were cultivated by the writing of the unforgettable Anne Rice, she also adores the work of Erin Morgenstern, Holly Black, Judy I. Lin, and Rachel Griffin to name a few. These days you will often find her with her nose buried in a romantic fantasy book.
She graduated from Brunel University with a 2:1(hons) in Creative Writing. She is an avid cat lady, die-hard tea drinker, and eternal star gazer. Always known to her family as a daydreamer, she and her young daughter, Ivy, can often be found looking at the moon.
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