The Skeleton Faerie

Children of the Death Gods: Book 1

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Genres

Magical Realism, Mythology, Fairies, Dark Fantasy, Post Apocalyptic, and Novels

Trigger Warnings

Abuse, Violence, Sex, Profanity, and Death

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Children of the Death Gods — Book 1

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Nov 8, 2025

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299 pages

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The Skeleton Faerie

Children of the Death Gods: Book 1

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Blurb

Fallout meets fairy folklore.

Faerie folklore meets a nuclear postapocalypse in this dark mythological fantasy woven with secrets, treachery, and star-crossed love.

Ninety-nine years after the Nuclear War of 1989, twenty-one-year-old Gus Brandon should only be interested in the survival of humanity and the expansion of his compound. But he’s obsessed with legends from the distant past, superstitions of an expired people.

While searching forbidden ruins for the scraps of stories lost to time, he stumbles upon a mysterious young woman covered in scars. Her name is Saoirse, and their meeting sets off a bloody chain of events—one in which Gus discovers that the folklore he loves just might be real, and that it’s tied to mankind in ways he could have never imagined.

Soon the lines between myth and reality blur, as do the lines between realms.

Gus will have to rely on his knowledge—and Saoirse—to survive the horrors awaiting him… in this world and the next.

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Genres

Magical Realism, Mythology, Fairies, Dark Fantasy, Post Apocalyptic, and Novels

Trigger Warnings

Abuse, Violence, Sex, Profanity, and Death

Type of Ending

Series

Children of the Death Gods — Book 1

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Publication Date

Nov 8, 2025

Page Length

299 pages

Available Formats

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Author

A. P. Mobley is the Halloween-loving, rock-music-obsessed author of dark fantasy inspired by mythology. She doesn’t only write about her favorite myths, folktales, and fairy tales in her books, though; she discusses them on her podcast, Myths (& Folktales & Fairy tales), as well as on her blog and newsletter. She grew up in Wyoming and Nebraska and currently lives in South Dakota, and when she’s not up to her elbows in research for her next project, she can be found consuming dangerous amounts of coffee, reading speculative fiction, or rewatching The Good Place.

Publisher

Sea of Ink Press