It's a system that no one has ever tried to fight. When you're told that it's your time to die, it is. That's the way it's been for years. Some people get eighty years, some get ten. A simple piece of paper is the only way that you can know for certain. Ren Barron knows exactly when he is going to die, down to the minute. Ever since the banishment of the country's doctors, illnesses have run rampant, and Ren's cancer is no exception. But just when he's finally accepted that he's going to die... he doesn't. Instead, he is saved by a group of renegades, each of whom has lived past their...

When sixteen-year-old Terra Spade decided to kill herself, she thought the result would be permanent. Instead, she ends up stuck in the middle of nowhere doing chores for the Grim Reaper herself, with no idea how to get out. Unable to move on without closure, Terra is forced to relive the memories that brought her to suicide in the first place. Her new job of reaping souls ends up causing her more harm than good when she realizes that death is a lot more complicated than she thought. Terra finally resigns herself to an afterlife full of questions and misery, and then she meets Andy, a boy...