A dark, hypnotic love story where grief opens a door between worlds.When Yeats Dane's wife is killed in a hit-and-run, he descends into a haze of vodka, Shakespeare, and unanswered rage — until a mysterious, otherworldly woman named Etrom Itaf begins pulling him toward the truth. But Etrom is no ordinary woman: she's a reaper of souls, forbidden to love the living, and falling for Yeats anyway. As their affair deepens into something transcendent and dangerous, Etrom risks everything — her rank, her existence, her very soul — on a single, impossible wager: that a broken man can learn to surrender his heart before time runs out. Part noir mystery, part erotic ghost story, part meditation...