The Strings of Death
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April died in a car accident. Now she's Death.
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When April Gryna was four years old she made a deal with Death to save her dying, sick sister's life. Fourteen years later she thinks it was an elaborate dream, but the nightmare is coming back to haunt her in the form of a car accident on her eighteenth birthday. It turns out this was the agreement; in order for her sister's life to be spared, April must become the new death - the New God of the Underworld and force of nature.
But April is sure she isn't right for the job - the shy, peacekeeping young woman can't bear the thought of submitting and overviewing death, never mind the strange prejudice because April is the first woman Goddess of Death. Now on a quest to find Xothnto Mortem - the real God of Death that had gone missing five hundred thousand years ago, April's time is running out. Something is hunting her - something that doesn't want her as Queen of the Underworld anymore than she and will stop at nothing to kill her soul.
Sometimes to live, you have to risk it all.
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