An apathetic god tries to defy fate to save the prince of a dying kingdom in this deeply heartfelt and humorous love story—for readers of TJ Klune, Travis Baldree and Heather Fawcett

All stories end in death . . . but death isn’t always the end of the story.

When bookish Noa Pendergast dies deep in cosmic debt, he’s given two options: a hundred years crunching numbers in the stuffy Treasury of Deeds, or a mere ten as the interim god of lost causes. The choice is easy.

Ten years, for a god, should be nothing. Noa counts himself lucky. He can leap between mountain peaks and savour every magical, impossible place he could never visit while he lived. But the prayers of the damned throw a wrench in Noa’s afterlife vacation plans. Worse still, against his will and his better judgment, Noa finds himself caring about one of his lost causes.

Prince Reaux Lan’s snarky, macabre prayers bring Noa a laugh, at first. Then the two form a friendship. But he soon learns Reaux’s kingdom is meant to fall, Reaux himself fated to an awful, ignominious end—and they have mere days to stop it.

With the help of a buttoned-up but delightfully subversive librarian goddess of structure and a cheery chaos deity, Noa will defy the heavens, the world, the entire universe. Fate is loath to change its course, though, and failure means not only the death of a person Noa might be starting to love, but also the ultimate punishment for meddling in the world’s natural cycles—the unravelling of his immortal soul.

Set in a rich, imaginative world ripe with strangeness and wonder, The God of Lost Causes is a fantastically uplifting novel about love and fighting hopelessness against all odds.