This isn't the afterlife she expected... Jen MacLellan can't get the hang of being a reaper. She's been separated from Jack, the man she loves, and is stuck with an annoying telepathic link to her ill-tempered mentor, Sam. Now Death is breathing down her neck, promising to remove that annoying link if she gives him what he wants. But when reapers begin to disappear back on earth, leaving behind walking, talking dead people, Jen and Sam are thrust into a dangerous mission to recapture the souls, and a passionate physical relationship that complicates everything. Jack Norris has no memory prior to waking up on the half-demon Nulcifer's couch six months earlier. As he begins to investigate his past, he discovers a string of past lives tied together by a beautiful, mysterious brunette. Who is she? And why does finding her seem like a life or death proposition? When Sam falls victim to fate during a routine visit to earth, Jen's devastated. Desperate to get him back, she runs smack into the man she never thought she'd see again-Jack. She tries to keep her distance, but there's no time to be awkward if they want to save Sam. When sinister plots are revealed, and betrayals threaten everything, she's forced to make some tough choices-and learns that life is just as difficult when you're dead.