We have a sneak peek of Natalie Johanson’s In Death’s Company for you this week!
In Death’s Company (Scythes and Souls #1)
Expected Release Date: September 5, 2025
Genre: Dark Contemporary Fantasy/ Fantasy Horror/ Sapphic
- Slow burn
- Sapphic romance
- Murder mystery
- Self discovery
- Thriller
Death comes for all, but no god can save you if you’ve taken Her souls.
When whispers of missing souls reach Death’s ears, she dismisses them as the usual chaos of the afterlife. After all, sometimes souls settle in to haunt or wander. But, when her Grim Reapers — the forbidden offspring of angels and demons — also begin vanishing without a trace, she fears the worst: that someone is coming for her throne.
May Haines struggles as a Green Witch and considers herself the dud of the family. She can’t keep a houseplant alive to save herself and is only halfway decent at simple spells. But fire… she can manage fire — which is certainly not a Green Witch skill.
Several suspicious deaths and unexplained murders happen in the small Arizona city of Oasis Point. May, an investigator with the Medical Examiner’s Office, begins to suspect a sinister connection to Death’s missing souls. Teaming up with the charming Homicide Detective Ethan Harding and her newfound ally, Death herself, May embarks on a gripping journey to uncover the truth behind the murders.
May will face a challenge that not only changes how she understands her magic, but her understanding of life and death itself.
Death thought she knew the worst that could happen, but she was wrong.
They all were.
Rating & Review
4.5 out of 5
This was a sweet, slow-burn sapphic romance, mixing the paranormal with a little murder mystery. Death (aka Harper) and May were great characters, and watching them get to know each other was one of my favorite parts of the story. Ethan (aka Detective Dimples) adds an extra dimension to the main cast, and he’s a bit of a cinnamon roll, which I loved. Instead of a rough and tumble detective, you get a soft and sweet one, turning gender norms and expectations on their head, something that I love about this book from start to finish. I appreciated how in-depth the descriptions were, they really helped bring the story to life. My biggest complaint was honestly that the pacing was a bit slow (I don’t just mean the romance, I mean the plot overall) – it moves along smoothly, just slowly. Overall, a really fun read, and once you get into it, you don’t want to stop reading. If you enjoy intriguing, quirky pnr, then you’ll want to read this!
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