Zodiac Rising

Dying was supposed to be the ultimate unsubscribe button. The universe, however, declined Wren Salazar's request.

Wren's life plan was simple: stay invisible, survive his violently toxic stepdad, and eventually escape. Taking a rusted kitchen knife to the chest to stop a drunken murder definitely wasn't on the agenda. Neither was waking up.

Instead of eternal peace, Wren opens his eyes fully healed, dressed in a flawless black-and-gold uniform, and standing outside the gates of an impossibly elite, otherworldly academy. It looks like the kind of high-budget prep school where the cafeteria serves wagyu beef. But while his fatal wound is gone, his trauma-and his terrifying, razor-sharp ability to instantly read the threats and power dynamics of any room-came with him.

Wren might have respawned in a pristine new world, but he's about to find out that surviving the social hierarchy of the afterlife is a lot deadlier than the knife that put him here.