Marlowe Morley has embraced her gift. Learning to walk the razor-thin line between the living and the dead, she’s felt the weight of the afterlife pressing in on her. She’s seen the darkness, listened to final confessions, and witnessed salvation rip the damned back from the edge of fire. Her calling is clear: guide the lost home before the flames can claim them.
But nothing could have prepared her for this.
When the corpse of a notorious serial killer is wheeled into her morgue, Marlowe comes face-to-face with the darkest soul she has ever encountered. His victims don’t linger, save one, but the echoes of his cruelty do. Every twisted choice, every horror he unleashed into this world, stains the air, clinging to him even in death.
Saving him feels impossible. Unthinkable. And for the first time since this all began, Marlowe hesitates.
How do you save someone who destroyed so many lives?
How do you show mercy to someone who never gave it?

Amid the cold steel and shadows, in the silence of the morgue, Marlowe must confront the limits of her own grace and face the radical truth that: from where forgiveness stands, no one, no matter how broken, brutal, or monstrous… is beyond its reach.