How to Hide Your Body After 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.