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Sheila Masterson is the USA Today Bestselling author of The Poison Daughter, a dark enemies to lovers romantasy standalone about a vigilante who uses her poison kiss to take revenge on abusive men in her community, until she's unwittingly thrust into an arranged marriage with the only man immune to her magic.

Her other works include the gothic fairy tale fantasy romance, Song of the Dark Wood, the angsty epic romantasy quartet, The Lost God Series, as well as its next-generation standalone spinoff, A Legacy of Stars.

When Sheila's not busy stabbing beloved side characters and dreaming up new ways to make her readers cry, you can find her browsing the shelves at local indie bookstores, drinking fancy cocktails with friends, or curled up readin ...more

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Average rating: 4.38 · 59,867 ratings · 9,139 reviews · 10 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Poison Daughter 4.43 avg rating — 53,677 ratings — published 2025	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lost God (The Lost God, #1) 3.70 avg rating — 1,912 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Song of the Dark Wood (Fable Song, #1) 3.82 avg rating — 1,638 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Memory Curse (The Lost God, #2) 3.94 avg rating — 854 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Legacy of Stars: The Lost God Legacies 4.27 avg rating — 740 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Godless Kingdom (The Lost God, #4) 4.50 avg rating — 507 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Storm King (The Lost God, #3) 4.31 avg rating — 515 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Memory Witch (The Lost God, #0.5) 3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Poison Daughter: Zum Sterben schön. Roman - Der Selfpublishing-Bestseller und TikTok-Hype – endlich in der deutschen Ausgabe by Sheila Masterson (Goodreads Author), Julian Müller (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Writing The Lost God and Bonus Content

This is my book and I’m partial since it came from my brain. When I started writing THE LOST GOD in early 2021, I’d just experienced a death in the family that severed the connection to an entire generation of memories. It was through the grief of that loss that the magic of the Gauntlet was born.

Cece is a character that is both fierce and powerful and also deeply sensitive, reactive, and reckless Read more of this blog post »

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“I’d rather be tortured by your presence than agonized by your absence.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

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“The only thing more dangerous than a man with a bruised ego is a woman with a score to settle.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

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“To err is human. To avenge is Divine.”
― Sheila Masterson, The Poison Daughter

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