Max has spent the past several thousand lifetimes as a Reaper among humans and, despite the pleasures of a tidy country home with a well-dusted library and a finely tuned Harley, he's starting to get bored. His best friend gives him some advice: "Drink some scotch. Bed a woman. Join a rock band. Get it out of your system, and get back to your dutiful service."
Max tried, but he ended up getting drunk, marrying the girl in Vegas, and accidentally triggering a chain of events that could end with the destruction of the human race.
Now he needs to make things right again but the Reaper quickly learns that the magic of being human comes with one grim reality.
Dominic Gallo dies in a gang crossfire but wakes up as Death's apprentice. Handsome and awkward, Dominic struggles with a reluctant mentor, sleep deprivation, and tasteless food in his surreal new existence working for the Life and Death (L&D) Corporation. He works alongside Life's apprentice, the beautiful but hostile, Violet and her mentor, the bubbly and vivacious Alice.
Together, Dominic and Violet pursue her psychotic killer and uncover dark forces within L&D, plotting to bring our world to its knees under a new empire. As the powers of Life and Death divide, Dominic falls for Violet and must make the ultimate choice to either fight on the side of Death or protect the forces of Life at all cost. As a comparison, think Ron Weasley meets Percy Jackson's girlfriend in the afterlife.