THE REAPER
Gethsemane Book 1
Coming 2025!
Photo Credit: Lola Odelola @lolaodelola.art
Jackson P. Brown is a writer from London, an anime and manga enthusiast, and the founder of Black Girl Writers — a mentoring programme for aspiring Black writers.
After winning Penguin Random House’s #WriteNow competition in 2020, she signed a 3-book deal with Del Rey UK for her debut adult fantasy series, GETHSEMANE.
Set in modern London, the story reimagines the Grim Reaper as smooth-talking, tea-drinking Gerald Reaper - a supernatural assassin hired to kill elites and aristocrats - who encounters Jamaican empath Amy St Clair in Camden Town. The unlikely duo team up to solve fantastical mysteries whilst maintaining the secrecy of London’s underground magic city, Downstairs.
The first book in the series, THE REAPER, in which they work to dismantle a criminal warlock’s people smuggling ring and find his elusive witch co-conspirator, releases in summer 2025.
Jackson is represented by Molly Jamieson of United Agents.
