SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN

The jinn Nadine has an outwardly simple job: every morning, she collects the pomegranate seeds that have fallen during the night, eats them one by one, and tells the story of each soul represented by each seed, thus allowing the soul to fully pass into death. When one morning, no seeds have fallen, Nadine seeks answers from death herself, Kamuna. But what Kamuna wants is for Nadine’s daughter, Layala, to replace her as death — and this is an ask no mother would be willing to grant.

Shesheshen is a shapeshifter who normally resides at the bottom of a ruined manor as an amorphous lump of flesh. But when hunters come for her, she’s chased off a cliff and badly injured. A human named Homily, mistaking her for another human, nurses her back to health…and Shesheshen falls in love. She’s contemplating laying her eggs in Homily until she realizes that things work rather differently for humans. And more to the point, Homily reveals that she’s here hunting for a shapeshifting monster that she believes cursed her family, which Shesheshen definitely did not do. Shesheshen must untangle this difficulty while figuring out how to be with this woman who is undoubtedly the love of her life in a way they can both live with.