Novel
A Hundred Days with the Reaper
A Korean Fantasy Romance
She writes the names of the dead. He has none.
Moon Se-ah letters names for a living. Funeral tablets, gravestones — she is the last person in the world to write a name new.
On a rainy afternoon she finds her own name on an order form. The intake box is blank, the date is today, and there is a man standing in her yard in the rain, not getting wet.
The Register has had her down as dead for three years. She is not. Somebody erased the entry and pulled her out of the water that night — and because of it, the world has begun taking her name back. From photographs. From records. From the mouths of the people who love her.
She has one hundred days until the review.
The reaper sent to watch her has no name of his own. He surrendered it, and he no longer remembers what he surrendered it for. He cannot touch her; a bare hand takes the warmth out of whatever it lands on. And every day he stays beside her costs her a little more, because the price of a reaper's attachment is always paid by the living.
She has a hundred days to find out who paid for hers.
A Korean folklore romance about the arithmetic of who is allowed to stay.
Set in a small Korean town of paulownia wood and chalk ground and ink that takes longer to dry on rainy days.
Content note: no sexual content. Two instances of strong language.
In this book
- A grim reaper hero, the Korean underworld, red warrants and the Register
- Forbidden touch — a bare hand takes the warmth from what it holds
- A hundred-day countdown, marked at the head of every chapter
- Dual POV, slow burn, no explicit content
- Memory sacrifice, found family, and a grief that is carried rather than cured
- Standalone. Complete. No cliffhanger. An earned happy ending.