Death knows when the dead are not leaving properly.
In a Birmingham hospital, bodies survive when they should not, souls linger when they should be gone, and something rotten is gathering in the spaces between life and death.
Tobias and Stuart are still trying to build a life after Music's return. Tobias is alive, loved, and not nearly as fixed as everyone would like. Stuart wants to keep him safe. Tobias wants to be trusted. The difference between care and control is becoming harder to ignore.
Then Death steps into the room.
The dead are not moving on. Shadow ghosts gather. Daisy sees what nobody else can. Violence tears through ordinary life, and the myth that began with Music turns toward grief, queerphobic harm, medical fear, and the cost of choosing to live.
`In the Shadow of Death` is Book 2 in the Tobias and Stuart Trilogy: darker adult queer speculative romance about trapped souls, grief, violence, devotion, and the painful work of choosing life.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Death catches the scent of rot in a Birmingham hospital: someone is binding the newly dead to their bodies-and it isn't her. At the same time, fourteen-year-old Daisy starts drawing lost souls like a lighthouse, and Tobias Staghorn-lecturer, reluctant prophet, the man Music once chose-opens his door to the impossible: Music has a body again, and love is suddenly crowded.Across a snow-slick winter turning to tense spring in the Midlands and London, A&E doctor Stuart Murray returns just as "impossible patients" stop dying on schedule; Death, elegant and furious, stalks the wards with a scythe she'd rather not use; and the rules show their edges: Death, Music, and Time are embodied and limited-guiding, kindling, braiding, but never choosing for a soul. Around them, Rosie, Lily and Troy at Tiger Lily, and Dottie hold the line, while Tobias and Stuart negotiate a hungry, tender power exchange that keeps breaking against work, wounds, and what they won't say aloud.To free the jammed passage between life and afterlife, Death needs answers; Tobias wants a department built, a grief faced, and a love he won't ruin; Stuart wants to save bodies without losing himself; Daisy just wants the noise to stop. As shadow ghosts thicken and hospitals buckle, what do they owe the living, the dead-and each other-when Time himself is the sabotage? Lyrical, hospital-set, quietly witty, queer, and threaded with melancholic hope. Second in this cycle but reads cleanly as a stand-alone. Boundaries: multiple on-page intimate scenes (including kink with explicit consent), medical trauma detail, grief and harassment, one attempted sexual assault referenced on-page, and frequent strong language. Perfect for readers who enjoy personified cosmic forces in the modern world, hospital drama with heart, messy queer romance with D/s edges, found family under pressure, grief-into-grace arcs, urban fantasy that feels intimate and human. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798232331436
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Death catches the scent of rot in a Birmingham hospital: someone is binding the newly dead to their bodies-and it isn't her. At the same time, fourteen-year-old Daisy starts drawing lost souls like a lighthouse, and Tobias Staghorn-lecturer, reluctant prophet, the man Music once chose-opens his door to the impossible: Music has a body again, and love is suddenly crowded.Across a snow-slick winter turning to tense spring in the Midlands and London, A&E doctor Stuart Murray returns just as 'impossible patients' stop dying on schedule; Death, elegant and furious, stalks the wards with a scythe she'd rather not use; and the rules show their edges: Death, Music, and Time are embodied and limited-guiding, kindling, braiding, but never choosing for a soul. Around them, Rosie, Lily and Troy at Tiger Lily, and Dottie hold the line, while Tobias and Stuart negotiate a hungry, tender power exchange that keeps breaking against work, wounds, and what they won't say aloud.To free the jammed passage between life and afterlife, Death needs answers; Tobias wants a department built, a grief faced, and a love he won't ruin; Stuart wants to save bodies without losing himself; Daisy just wants the noise to stop. As shadow ghosts thicken and hospitals buckle, what do they owe the living, the dead-and each other-when Time himself is the sabotage Lyrical, hospital-set, quietly witty, queer, and threaded with melancholic hope. Second in this cycle but reads cleanly as a stand-alone. Boundaries: multiple on-page intimate scenes (including kink with explicit consent), medical trauma detail, grief and harassment, one attempted sexual assault referenced on-page, and frequent strong language. Perfect for readers who enjoy personified cosmic forces in the modern world, hospital drama with heart, messy queer romance with D/s edges, found family under pressure, grief-into-grace arcs, urban fantasy that feels intimate and human. Seller Inventory # 9798232331436