It isn’t easy to reap the dead – It’s even harder to survive it. Gabrielle Downing never wanted anything to do with death. Gabby wasn’t chosen like the others, she was born into the curse of the Grim and its gruesome responsibilities. She wouldn’t become some skeleton dude wearing an ancient moth eaten robe – one in which she hid the wicked in her stoles, that was Hollywood’s version of her reality. She was going to become a hand of death, whether she wanted the job or not.
Her parents were to blame – for creating her, for making her what she was. Gabby didn’t fit the profile of the cold heartless shadows that dispatched the living into death. She was still a teenager, who loved everything about her life. Despite the comfort she felt the moment the sword slid into her hand, she wasn’t ready to dole out death or live out eternity as a reaper. Some people don’t get to choose their futures, they are chained to them.
Born of two retired reapers, Gabby was a Legacy, immortal until her service ended. However, that perk came with a price. She would become Death's handmaiden in the Shading, a dull place that shadows the human world, a place where reapers shadow the living. Her service would cost Gabby her family, friends, and her boyfriend Nico. There was no resigning the commission and only one way out. Legacies had to survive the training and fulfill their service or they are dispatched, erased from existence by the elders, to die without the chance of an afterlife. Over the centuries, only a handful of legacies had been strong enough. Most died, unable to block out their human emotions and ignore the pleas of the dying. In service, there are no second chances and mistakes are fatal for the reaper.
Surviving the training was hard enough, fulfilling her service might be impossible. The Shading is under attack and the ripples are tearing a seam between the worlds. Souls are dying without being marked, dying before their time, fracturing the timelines of the future. She is supposed to take lives, not save them, but when her boyfriend becomes a target, death becomes personal. She will have to break every reaper law to save Nico and the others, risking her own soul to save their futures. If Gabby can’t embrace who and what she is, she will lose them all, even if claiming that heritage costs her everything. It is a sacrifice she’s willing to make, even if her own reaping awaits.
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