S.A. Barnes

? THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ?Life is a battlefield. Death is just a girl. Perfect for fans of Buffy, Nightshade, and Ilona Andrews, Death's Daughter is a deliciously dark urban fantasy set at a New England university, where the only daughter of Death is named his successor . . . 'Paranormal lovers rejoice, your new obsession has arrived!' HANNAH WHITTEN__________________________________Jocasta has carved out a normal life at Beecher University - well, as normal it can be when your name is Jocasta and you are the only child of Death. Jo has a good job, great friends, and is trying to get over a secret fling with an unbelievably attractive (and unbelievably unavailable) grad student. But she's also lonely. No one close to her knows the truth about who - or what - she is. Or that she must feed to survive, and she feeds on them - their disappointments, failures, and rejections. It's not a perfect system, but it works. Just. Until a handsome stranger - and descendant of Lust - shows up on campus and announces that Death has formally named Jo as his successor. Now she's both a powerful ally and a massive threat, and everyone she loves is a target. But Beecher is the one place that has ever felt like home, and Jo will do anything to protect it. Even if it means becoming the very thing she hates . . . 'Like a spicier, modern take on the old school urban fantasies I love so much . . . but with a gritty dark academia world all its own' ? reader review'It gave me big Buffy the Vampire Slayer vibes...students with paranormal secrets, a campus setting, and blissfully oblivious authorities' ? reader review__________________________________'Delivers paranormal romance, wicked fun, and irresistible tension' LOGAN KARLIE'Full of tension, dread, and spice, Death's Daughter is the urban fantasy resurrected!' TANYA PELL'A deliciously seductive and sinister read, Death's Daughter is set to be a new dark academia sensation with its impeccable autumnal vibes' NADIA EL-FASSI'A fun, sexy fantasy (with a touch of mystery) . . . fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer will eat this up with a spoon' CHRISTINA HENRY'A twisting tale . . . that will keep you reading long into the night' HAZEL McBRIDE'Witty, scorching, and action-packed. Barnes totally kills it-pun intended' MELISSA LANDERSNO. 3 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SUNDAY 17TH MAY 2026

A New Scientist best new science-fiction book of April 2026'Truly un-put-downable in its purest sense' Chloe Gong, author of These Violent Delights'The ultimate haunted house story, in space' Alma Katsu, author of The Deep and The Hunger'This story slides and slithers from creepy and atmospheric to skin-crawling, edge-of-your-seat terror' T. Kingfisher, author of The Hollow Places__________A GHOST SHIP. A SALVAGE CREW. UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS. Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed - and made obsolete - when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and her team decide to investigate. What they find at the other end of the signal is a shock: the Aurora, a famous luxury space-liner that vanished on its maiden tour of the solar system more than twenty years ago. A salvage claim like this could set Claire and her crew up for life. But a quick trip through the Aurora reveals something isn't right. Whispers in the dark. Flickers of movement. Words scrawled in blood. Claire must fight to hold onto her sanity and find out what really happened on the Aurora, before she and her crew meet the same ghastly fate.

From the Queen of Space Horror comes a terrifying, dread-filled nightmare perfect for fans of Ridley Scott''s Alien franchise.''The S.A. Barnes Creature Feature we''ve all been waiting for! Tense, nasty, and melancholic'' Caitlin Starling_________Desperation for eternal life can lead to a fate worse than death...Halley is on the run from an interplanetary political scandal that has put a huge target on her back. She heads for what seems like the perfect place to lay low: Elysian Fields, a gigantic space barge storing the cryogenically frozen bodies of Earth’s most fortunate citizens from more than a century ago…The cryo program, created by trillionaire tech genius Zale Winfeld, is long defunct, and the AI hologram ''hosts'', ghoulishly created in the likeness of Winfeld’s three adult children, are glitchy. The ship feels like a crypt, and the isolation gets to Halley almost immediately. She starts to see figures crawling in the hallways, and there’s a constant scraping, slithering, and rattling echoing in the vents.It’s not long before Halley realises she may have gotten herself trapped in an even more dangerous situation than the one she was running from…._________Praise for Cold Eternity''So well done and creepy, with a twist that will shock you!'' Hildur Knútsdóttir''Cements S.A. Barnes''s already impressive reputation as Queen of Space Horror'' Ally Wilkes''You''ll want to read this one with the lights on'' Katee Robert, bestselling author of the Dark Olympus series

"You''ll want to read this one with the lights on."?Katee Robert, New York Times bestselling authorCold Eternity is the newest action-packed space horror from S.A. Barnes perfect for fans of Severance, where desperation for eternal life leads to a fate worse than death...Halley is on the run from an interplanetary political scandal that has put a huge target on her back. She heads for what seems like the perfect place to lay low: a gigantic space barge storing the cryogenically frozen bodies of Earth?s most fortunate citizens from more than a century ago?The cryo program, created by trillionaire tech genius Zale Winfeld, is long defunct, and the AI hologram "hosts," ghoulishly created in the likeness of Winfeld?s three adult children, are glitchy. The ship feels like a crypt, and the isolation gets to Halley almost immediately. She starts to see figures crawling in the hallways, and there?s a constant scraping, slithering, and rattling echoing in the vents.It?s not long before Halley realizes she may have gotten herself trapped in an even more dangerous situation than the one she was running from?.Also by S.A. Barnes:Dead SilenceGhost Station

V tomto hororovém sci-fi románu, v němž se hlavní hrdinka a její posádka nalodí na desítky let ztracenou luxusní výletní loď a najdou trosky noční můry, která ještě neskončila, se Titanic potkává s Osvícením. Claire Kovaliková počítá poslední dny do chvíle, kdy se má stát nezaměstnanou – profesně zastaralou –, když vtom její posádka opravující majáky ve vesmíru zachytí podivný nouzový signál. Protože nemá co ztratit a netouží po návratu na Zemi, rozhodne se se svým týmem prozkoumat situaci.Jejich objev je šokující: Aurora, slavná luxusní kosmická loď, která před více než dvaceti lety zmizela při své první cestě sluneční soustavou. Takové nálezné by mohlo Claire a její posádku zajistit na celý život. Rychlá prohlídka lodi však odhalí, že něco není v pořádku.Šepot ve tmě. Záblesky pohybu. Vzkazy načmárané krví. Claire musí bojovat, aby si udržela zdravý rozum a zjistila, co se na Auroře skutečně stalo, než ji a její posádku potká stejně strašidelný osud.