When seventeen-year-old Ethan Grady gets sucker punched by the cosmos, resulting in his violent demise, he finds himself in the ambiguous realm of the Nearafter. Ethan's death means that he must now face the afterlife, but it's not what he expects. He expects to move on to his next phase of existence, only there's a small problem. His name isn't anywhere in the Department of Expiration for Accidents and Timely Haphazards' (D.E.A.T.H.) system. What does that mean for Ethan Grady? Was there a mistake? Is that even possible? While attempting to piece together the mystery of Mr. Grady's demise, the Department of Expiration appoints Ethan as a Reaper alongside two others, JT and Gretchen, until they learn more about the thing that had fallen from the sky to kill him. Ethan is a mystery. While navigating this confusing and dangerous new world, he is dispatched to a small town, where the Reapers are tasked with quelling a small-scale zombie uprising brought on by a young necromancer- a hopeless romantic named Gustav Vladasvich. Along the way, Ethan encounters Samantha Lockhart, a girl about his age who wrestles with strange bouts of intense obsessive compulsions and is one of the survivors of the small-town zombie uprising. With Ethan's help, Samantha and her mother attempt to escape the zombie-infested town, after discovering a conspiracy to cover the whole thing up.
35 parts