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Jeune Moreau learned early that love was conditional. Her father''s love came with requirements she could never meet. Her mother''s love ended at the bottom of a staircase. The only constant in her life was Elias, who refused to leave her side, who cared for her through every fever, who looked at her like she hung the moon.She didn''t realize devotion could become a cage.Then she met Isaiah, a man who touches her like she''s precious, not property, who loves her gently without conditions, without hunger. Who offers her something she never thought she''d have: a way out and a chance at a normal life.But the Moreau family doesn''t let go of what belongs to them, and Elias has always believed Jeune belonged to him.Even in death.

Anahita Esther Blanding-Davani has always known she would die young.

The genetic illness that claimed her mother and brother runs through her veins like a curse, and at thirty-two, she can feel her body beginning its final surrender. After a violent confrontation with a man who has haunted her since girlhood, she flees her hometown in rural North Carolina, using her brother''s life insurance to buy a trailer in the middle of nowhere—a place to wait for the end, alone and unbothered.

But the woods behind her new home hold something ancient. Something hungry.

The entity that emerges from the darkness offers Anahita a deal: in exchange for her body after death, it will ease her suffering, consuming her pain through increasingly intimate touches. What begins as a transaction becomes something far more dangerous—tenderness, devotion, and a love that defies the boundary between human and other.

As Anahita''s body fails, she finds herself building an unexpected family: the creature who worships her dying flesh, and Dale, a young trans Native teen fleeing his own demons. Together, they forge a home in the liminal space between life and death, love and consumption, ending and beginning.

How to Hide Your Body After Death is a Southern Gothic that explores what it means to be truly seen, truly wanted, and truly devoured by love.