Signed: Death's Bride by Lo Gold (Paperback Edition)

Releases: 10/6/26

Standard edition (standard paperback) with art, stickers & an Obsidian Flower custom 2oz soy candle.

TROPES

🖤Eldritch horror 

🥀Arranged Marriage

💀Second Chance

🖤Love Triangle

🥀Dark Academia

💀He Really Likes Bugs

🖤Tim Burton Vibes

🥀He Pines for Her

💀Marked By Death

🖤Something is in the Woods 

🥀A Lover's Curse

💀So Much Tension

🖤Ancient folklore 

𝕯𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍 𝖒𝖆𝖞 𝖜𝖆𝖓𝖙 𝖒𝖊 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖍𝖎𝖘 𝖇𝖗𝖎𝖉𝖊, 𝖇𝖚𝖙 𝕴 𝖆𝖑𝖗𝖊𝖆𝖉𝖞 𝖇𝖊𝖑𝖔𝖓𝖌 𝖙𝖔 𝖘𝖔𝖒𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖊 𝖊𝖑𝖘𝖊

Penelope Everly is a girl claimed by Death. He stalks her from the shadows, watching and waiting. But now that she’s becoming a young woman, her parents have betrothed her to someone against her will in order to save their dwindling family fortune.

Victor Van Daught has no interest in marriage or remaining in the town he grew up in to take over the family business. He is a man of science and discovery—an aspiring entomologist. But when he meets Penelope Everly he’s immediately enchanted by her.

The young couple enter the halls of Corvus University together, given a semester to solidify their betrothal. But the school holds more secrets than scholars, and when students start disappearing, Penelope and Victor begin to fear that Death has come to claim his bride.

Death’s Bride is a gothic Corpse Bride inspired folktale retelling with dark academia and romantic horror vibes.