Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay—until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Charlie Asher, it seems, has been recruited for a new position: as Death.

It's a dirty job. But, hey! Somebody's

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ALA Book Club October Pick, 2018 Casey Maldonado is haunted by the deaths of her husband and young son. She hopes traveling through the vast reaches of Idaho will offer peace. Instead, she fights off three drunken locals before escaping to a quiet town where she wants to heal from her injuries and constant sorrow. Her traveling companion, invisible to all but Casey, is Death, wearing a series of disguises and offering expert commentary on her difficulties. Unfortunately,...

Dr. Peter Brown is an intern at Manhattan's worst hospital, with a talent for medicine, a shift from hell, and a past he'd prefer to keep hidden. Whether it's a blocked circumflex artery or a plan to land a massive malpractice suit, he knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men.
Pietro "Bearclaw" Brnwna is a hitman for the mob, with a genius for violence, a well-earned fear of sharks, and an overly close relationship with the Federal Witness...

How far would you go to save those marked for Death? When the call to reap uncovers a new threat to Easton and its inhabitants, Tyler is drawn back into a world she thought she'd left behind. Forced to face her greatest fears, she seeks to uncover the identity of the rogue reaper murdering men employed by her former ally. But, the search leads her to a conspiracy decades in the making. With the line between friends and enemies blurring, Tyler begins...

"Remy Pendergast, vampire hunter, and his unexpected companions, royal vampires Lord Zidan Malekh and Lady Xiaodan Song, are on the road through the kingdom of Aluria again after a hard-won first battle against the formidable Night Empress, who threatens to undo a fragile peace between humans and vampires. Xiaodan, severely injured, has lost her powers to vanquish the enemy's new superbreed of vampire, but if the trio can make it to Fata Morgana,...

Upon accepting a deal from the Grim Reaper, 17-year old Nick Cross thought he could change reality, defy destiny, resurrect something in his life that went missing, but he never expected what the Grim Reaper was really offering, a chance to become the Grim Reaper himself. Chosen as the new Grim Reaper, or, Raveonite, Nick Cross steps out into the Und-r-world, but he should watch his back, for there are some things, in our world, and the next, that...

To free the angel of death, will she have to make a pact with the angel of hell?Ayla has enough on her hands without finding out she has acquired a supernatural allure that enthralls Callum. If he likes her, she wants it to be for herself, not because of magic.Her decisions have thrown her world into chaos and the Angel of Death is demanding she do something about it.All Hell is about to break loose.And Ayla opens the gates.Everyone she holds dear...

After surviving a horrific attack by a dark fae, Theodora Edwards is happy to put the magical world of Fairie firmly in the past-until she learns the reason behind the abrupt disappearance of Farranen, the guardian of the gate. Unfortunately, her improvised rescue attempt ends in death-her death. As if surviving death isn't weird enough, her magic takes on a life of its own and starts creating flawed ghosts. While struggling to control her magic,...

Richmond burns once again but this time it is caused by a deadly virus, quickly dubbed the Reaper Virus, that is ravaging and reanimating all it encounters. This agent of the apocalypse breaks through the boundaries separating life and death while demonizing the afterlife. Havoc is ferociously wrought upon every corner of the globe by the infected hunger. Trapped at his dispatcher desk in a campus police station, Nathan is determined to do whatever...

Someone is killing unmarked souls, and Ru Roberts is the only one that can stop them. That's a bit of a problem, though, since she has no idea she's a Keeper. Adopted as a small child, Ru knows next to nothing about her birth parents. Her new mom insists she was given up because she "ruins everything." Hence, her name-Ruin. Yet, Ru has managed to make a life for herself in the small town of Reaper's Hollow, working as a fourth grade teacher, which...