DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS

Death has a girlfriend. This is going to be a fucking disaster.

Valentina is twenty-six, underpaid, opinionated, and trying to make a living as a journalist in Mexico City. She has an overprotective mother, a talent for choosing complicated lovers, and absolutely no intention of dying young.

Unfortunately, she's caught the attention of Death herself.

Muerte is beautiful, insufferably dramatic, hopelessly promiscuous, and rather offended by the suggestion that she might have feelings. Her palace is full of history's most extraordinary dead, all of whom have opinions, secrets, and a remarkable inability to mind their own business.

Then there's Gabriel: a handsome Spanish soldier who's been haunting Mexico City for five hundred years. He has a tragic story, a persuasive smile, and some very inconvenient gaps in his memory.

Between ancient betrayals, modern injustices, terrible decisions and love affairs that refuse to behave themselves, Valentina discovers that loving someone beyond death is rather different from understanding what death actually costs.

And when Día de los Muertos finally brings the living and dead together, even Death may have to admit that some stories aren't hers to tell.

Darkly funny, shamelessly romantic and occasionally devastating, DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS is an adult gothic narrative poem about love, grief, history, family and the extraordinary arrogance of believing we have all the time in the world.

Featuring famous dead people behaving disgracefully, one spectacularly dysfunctional love triangle, and a father who genuinely believes he can threaten Death herself.

Because apparently, dying doesn't put an end to family drama.