Meet Reed Lavender, mostly-human nephew to Death herself, a man with the ability to hear the final words of the recently deceased. Using those words and his own investigative skills, Reed does his best to solve crimes or bring peace, joined by his Reaper relatives and demi-gods - some of whom are actually helpful and others who only think they are. On Reed's latest case, this time trying to solve the murder of a teen runaway, he uncovers something far bigger and darker beneath his city, something vast, something that is ripening to rot...