Design: Emma Hardy
Every time seventeen-year-old Charlie Ford touches someone, they absorb seconds of their life . . . which adds up when Charlie has no way of giving that time back. It feels like enough of a curse without Lou—the bratty bully of a ghost who’s hung around Charlie since childhood—forcing them to hand over that stolen life for her to use.
Charlie will steal life from whomever Lou tells them to, as long as she doesn’t hurt Charlie’s twin Sam or their best friend and secret crush Ravi. So when Lou tries to force Charlie to take life from Ravi, Charlie refuses, and Lou retaliates.
When Lou goes after Sam, Charlie breaks down and finally tells Ravi about their life-stealing abilities—and after some internet sleuthing, Ravi finds out that Charlie might not be the only person born with that power. Along with Sam, they embark on a weekend road trip to meet a pair of self-proclaimed “death gods,” hoping for answers and, if they’re lucky, a solution to the whole Lou problem. But the answers about their powers only bring up more questions. With dark discoveries at every turn, Charlie must wrestle with a supernatural legacy that redefines their relationships to Sam and Ravi—and calls their very humanity into question.
Published March 3rd, 2026 by Page Street YA
ISBN: 9798890033840 | Ages 14+
As if being born a death god wasn’t enough, Charlie and their twin Sam have also inherited their great-aunt Eleanor’s New York City brownstone apartment. It wouldn’t be such a burden if Eleanor hadn’t been a death god herself–and the last elder of the House of Snake. Now the other Houses expect the Fords to command the sizeable army of ghosts Eleanor amassed and join their ancient order, though Charlie and Sam would just as soon sell the place and leave before they get in over their heads.
But Charlie can’t pass up a summer in the city where their boyfriend just moved. So they convince Sam to help them renovate the apartment, and in the meantime, they can train under their surly teenage death god allies, Jessie and Jill DaRosa. The DaRosas are part of the formidable House of Scorpion, an order that uses their ghosts to control global politics and hoard resources. Jessie and Jill intend to introduce Charlie and Sam to the cutthroat world of death god Houses—but before they can, the DaRosas’ ghosts go missing.
The elders within House of Scorpion find it awfully suspicious that Charlie and Sam arrived on the scene just before this unprecedented calamity, and they accuse the Ford siblings of stealing their spirits to elevate the fallen House of Snake. To prove their innocence, Charlie and Sam must find the ghosts and return them—or become ghosts themselves..
Coming April 6, 2027 from Page Street YA
ISBN: 9798890036124 | Ages 14+