Death

Four horsemen have come to earth on screaming steeds, each one riding to a different corner of the world with the power to destroy humanity. Pestilence, War and Famine have done their work. The last to arrive is Death, who expects silence and surrender from the people he finds.

He does not get it from Lazarus Gaumond. She is marked by immortality and driven by a purpose of her own, and she is the one soul Death cannot claim. Her refusal to fall is the thing most likely to loosen his resolve to end the world.

This is a romance wrapped in myth, and the final book in the Four Horsemen series, so it follows the earlier volumes. Lazarus and Death are set against each other first, and the attraction between them grows out of that clash. It is dark romance and romantasy, and the tone is dark, with sacrifice hanging over the setting and hope pushing back against it.

The stakes are the fate of humanity, and for the two leads, whether a love can hold when one of them has come to end everything. It is best suited to readers who want a romance set at the end of the world.