THE ETERNAL DEATHS OF HATTIE GOLD

To fulfill her destiny, Hattie Gold must kill the one man she loves more than life (and Death) itself.

As Millennial Death's Gen Z protégé, twenty-two-year-old Hattie Gold has spent the last eight years learning how to take a life and live one at the same time. And it's been going fine! Well, less fine for the tech bros and smarmy assholes she's been luring into bar bathrooms and killing. She doesn't exactly love sowing the seeds of death in other people, but she doesn't hate it either. There's something heady and powerful about allowing the darkness to seep out of her fingers and into someone else's soul. Except, assholes aren't the only ones that need to die. Good people do too. And that's... less fine with Hattie. Maybe it's not fine at all.

Millennial Death, known only as James, is an infuriatingly sexy and cavalier being who takes the form of whoever the hottest guy around is. As her mentor, James has had enough of Hattie's ambivalence. And he knows exactly whator whois holding her back: Eli Cohen, the curly haired, bright-eyed human Hattie has been in love with since they were kids. And he's also the one thing keeping Hattie tied to her humanity. Which is why he needs to die.

But when Hattie shows up to his apartment, ready to do what she should have done eight years ago, Eli opens the door and he's... still Eli. He's still sweet and disarming and all the good things about humanity Hattie can't bring herself to abandon completely. Hattie knows she has a destiny to fulfill, but no matter how many times she resolves to kill Eli, she just can't seem to go through with it. And the more time they spend together, the more Hattie can't help but be reminded of who she was before death became her life.

Hattie finds herself torn between her responsibility as Death, the exasperating, intoxicating pull of James, and her ever-growing obsession with the human man she's desperately trying not to love. Because it turns out, the one thing her training as Death never prepared her for, is what it means to actually live.

Darianne currently lives in a small coastal town in Florida, where she is lucky enough to enjoy long walks on the beach nearly every weekend. When she's not writing stories about grief, love, and complicated characters, you can find her eating the darkest possible chocolate or playing overly aggressive games of Scrabble. Unless it's Friday night, in which case she'll be at the dinner table with her large extended family, half-heartedly telling her daughter and nieces to stop throwing bread at each other. Her debut YA novel, 72 Hours Of You, sold at auction for six figures and will be published as a lead title with Disney-Hyperion in Summer 2026. It has already sold in fourteen territories internationally, including six auctions, and four preempts, with additional deals currently under negotiation.