South African gothic horror about inheritance, memory, and what refuses to stay buried.
Better Off Wed
Maggie didn't expect the afterlife to have a homeowners' association. She especially didn't expect to be married into it. A dark fantasy novel about death, domesticity, and a man named Richard who built a suburb in the underworld because someone had to be in charge.
31 OCTOBER 2028
Maggie never expected the afterlife to look like a 1950s sitcom, pearls at her throat, casserole in hand, and a smiling husband she barely remembers marrying. It is perfect in the way that things are perfect when someone has worked very hard to make sure you don't ask questions.
The roses wilt by morning and bloom again by noon. The food tastes like ash. The neighbours speak in loops, and Richard, charming, certain of everything, tells her this is simply how love feels when it's eternal.
But when Hettie, a glamorous underworld hostess with an agenda she hasn't fully disclosed, pulls back the curtain on Richard's paradise, something in Maggie begins to wake up. The life she lived. The woman she loved. The accident that brought her here, and the man who may not have been sorry about it.
This was not fate. It was architecture.
Now Maggie must choose; play the perfect wife forever, or burn it all down.
Better Off Wed is a dark fantasy novel about death, domesticity, and the particular audacity of a man who built his own afterlife and populated it without asking permission.