Death and Mr. Right

It is March 32nd, the day that doesn't exist, and Death, the Agent of Nightmares, has been demoted and exiled to live among mortals for the rest of his unnaturally long life. The only way to escape this banishment? Navigate the modern world, recover what was stolen (the Names of the Damned—oops!), and return to his rightful place.The only problem? Lola, the pretty thief who got him into trouble in the first place, might have stolen more than just his property—she may have stolen his heart.

From Publishers Weekly

Saunders follows her magical realism novel Inanimate Objects with this giddy little riff on a Death who isn't the Reaper everyone knows and fears. Kelly Gold, a short, blue-haired, smart-mouthed, pathetic agent of nightmares, has just one job: instilling foreboding in mortals. Then he flubs an assignment—to take a list of condemned souls to Boston—because he falls in love with lissome pink-wigged Lola, a professional thief who steals the list from him. Stuck in a loathsome Boston and stripped of his supernatural powers, Kelly has one ally, his friend Mr. Right, whose eternal job description involves creating intense yearning. As Kelly pursues a slow-simmering quest to recover the lost list and defuse the human temptress Lola, Saunders presents some clever characterizations, but cutesy dialogue and a paucity of plot make this attempted romp fall flat. Agent: Rebecca Mancini, Rights Mix. (Oct.)

About the Author

Kendra L. Saunders is the author of the magic realism novel Inanimate Objects and the dark comedy Death and Mr. Right. She is marketing coordinator for Spencer Hill Press and has conducted interviews with Jennifer L. Armentrout, Aurelio Voltaire and many others for magazines and radio, including Steampunk Magazine. She's the host of the quirky literary podcast 13 1/2 Minutes. In her spare time, Kendra likes to drink too much tea, read fashion magazines, daydream about boys with dark hair, listen to records on vinyl, attend steampunk conventions and attempt to travel back in time to the Jazz Age.

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