Centuries

Death has worn many faces—but none as human as Dr. Halvorsen’s. For centuries, he’s honored every bargain, claimed every soul, and never once faltered. Until Clarence Stroud. When a desperate mother begs for her dying son’s life, Halvorsen grants her wish—just a few more years in exchange for a promise he’ll one day collect. But when that day comes, something goes wrong. Halvorsen takes the boy’s body… only to find the boy’s soul still inside.

Now Death is trapped in mortal flesh, sharing it with a man who refuses to die. Each day, Clarence’s memories bleed into his mind—his grief, his love, his sins—and the line between who is Death and who was Clarence begins to blur. Hunted by his own kind for breaking the natural order, Halvorsen must hide among the living and seek out the truth behind the impossible survival of this soul.

His only ally is Gemma Rafferty, the reaper sworn to guard Clarence’s spirit—and the last of the Fates, a secret that could unravel the Veil itself. But the closer Halvorsen draws to her, the more he realizes that Clarence’s lingering soul is not a mistake. It’s a message. And the centuries-old conspiracy buried beneath the Veil may destroy both the realm of the dead and the fragile world of the living.