Shadowlaw00
After surviving a fiery plane crash that killed everyone else on board, eighteen-year-old Noah Reyes becomes a media miracle-and a teen hunted by something he can't escape. Haunted by survivor's guilt and the death of the girl he loved, he isolates himself in a seaside hotel room, clinging to the strange seashell he found while scuba diving in the shark-infested waters of Byron Bay.
Then Death comes for him. Not as an event, but as a presence-tall, hooded, and unrelenting. Yet when the reaper tries to claim him, something ancient intervenes. The shell burns in Death's grasp. Noah's wish-to live until ninety-has bound them together in defiance of every law that governs life and dying.
Now Noah walks the world as an impossible soul: a man who cannot die, shadowed by the very force he cheated. Death wants its order restored, but it can't touch him-only *talk* to him, twist him, tempt him toward surrender. The shell's power begins to wane, its glow dimming as Noah's sanity does.
Each encounter pushes him closer to a truth darker than death itself. What if his borrowed time isn't a gift at all-but a curse feeding on every life that should have ended in his place?
Will Noah find a way to break the wish before Death convinces him to end it himself?