Grim (Bound by Death Book 1)

Death was never meant to love her.

Valerie May Henderson believed she was human—fragile, ordinary, and running out of time. She was wrong.

When she is pulled into the hidden world of reapers—beings tasked with maintaining the balance between life and death—Valerie becomes entangled with Erik, a powerful and emotionally distant enforcer whose duty is to punish mistakes… not make them. Drawn together by something neither of them fully understands, their connection becomes dangerous, forbidden, and impossible to ignore.

As Valerie uncovers the truth about who she is—and what she was created to become—the rules governing death, love, and loyalty begin to fracture. Ancient powers stir. Political tensions rise. And the closer Erik grows to her, the more everything he has sworn to protect comes under threat.

In a world where love is considered a weakness, choosing it may be the deadliest mistake of all.

Dark, emotionally intense, and unapologetically slow-burn, Grim is a supernatural romance about fate, obsession, and the cost of defying death itself.