When I Was Death

Alexis Henderson

eBook - 2026

A teenage girl must do Death’s bidding to uncover the secrets of her sister’s disappearance in this haunting young adult novel by the author of The Year of the Witching.“A searing portrayal of girlhood, at once sparkling and violently dark.”—Goldy Moldavsky, New York Times bestselling author of The Mary Shelley ClubRoslyn isn’t herself anymore. It’s been a year since her sister, Adeline, died under mysterious circumstances, and Roslyn is still tormented by her absence. So when the elusive caravan of girls that Adeline spent her last summer with rolls back into town, Roslyn joins them to finally figure out what happened to her sister.Strange, beautiful, and intriguing, the girls are closed off from the world. And as it turns ou...t, they’re brought together by a force more sinister than Roslyn’s nightmares could’ve conjured up: Death himself.Death has spared the girls from... more