Death, Dawn & Other Inconveniences (Volume 1)

A vampire who won’t drink blood. A Medusa who turns people to stone when she’s nervous. A Cyclops who meditates. Welcome to San Mágos, where monsters and humans coexist, and the real danger wears a suit.

Venus Akino is seventeen, undead, and grieving. Her brother Orion is gone, and with him, the only person who understood her. Now she’s starting university in San Mágos, a city where vampires, Medusas, ghosts, and dragons live alongside humans in an uneasy truce enforced by a system that calls surveillance “safety” and compliance “wellness.”

Between classes, Venus stumbles into an impossible friendship with Sunshine, a girl who steps through mirrors like they’re open doors. Eva, a young Medusa, discovers her visions might be prophecy. Bolt, a gentle Cyclops, senses something shifting beneath the city. And at MTHRNTR Café, where a three-headed dragon juggles orders and a unicorn holds court, this unlikely circle begins to find what none of them expected: each other.

But San Mágos has its own plans. The Noblethorn family’s grip on the city runs deeper than politics, and the substance every monster trusts may be hiding something far darker than its marketing suggests. When Venus uncovers a truth that powerful people need buried, the fragile peace between worlds begins to crack.

The first volume in a six-book series, Death, Dawn & Other Inconveniences blends irreverent humour with emotional depth, asking what it costs to be yourself in a world built to make you comply. Part coming-of-age story, part urban fantasy, all heart.