Saint Death's Herald

core novel 2025 Saint Death's Daughter

Record

First published	2025
Original language	EN
Work type	novel
Canon status	core
Reader rating	4.13 (426 ratings, collected 2026-09-15)
Page count	432
First-edition ISBN	9781837864492
Internal chronology	2

Synopsis

The second novel picks up with Lanie Stones living in exile and mourning a recent personal loss, her grief entangled with her identity as a necromancer of considerable, still-developing power. Her attention turns to her great-grandfather, Irradiant Stones, an ancient and effectively deathless necromancer who escapes his long imprisonment and seizes a body for himself. Grandpa Rad sets out for Skakhmat, the icy country where he first died, intending to complete a campaign of genocide he began generations earlier. Backed by newfound relatives and drawing on her own death magic, including the ability to sing restless spirits to their rest, Lanie takes up the pursuit, determined to stop her ancestor before he can carry out his plans in Skakhmat.

Where it sits

• Universe: Saint Death's Daughter
• Series: Saint Death's Daughter core; position 2 of 2 in the series' recorded order
• Author: C.S.E. Cooney

Notes

• From the series record (Saint Death's Daughter): An ongoing series following a pacifist necromancer's daughter navigating a poison-and-death-magic secondary world. C.S.E. Cooney's first universe in this canon.

Neighbouring works

Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.

• Reading order, within the series Saint Death's Daughter: position 2 of 2: previous Saint Death's Daughter (2022)

Sources

• World Fantasy Awards: 2023 Awards
• https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Saint-Deaths-Herald/C-S-E-Cooney/Saint-Death-Series/9781837864492

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