In a world where Death is not only revered but streamed and celebrated.

Tia is a poor girl from Kingsile who has struggled most of her life. That's the life for most Kingsile inhabitants in this world. The only thing she has looked forward to is The Text. On the day of your eighteenth birthday, each person gets a text from the famous Reaper Academy: "Do you Want to Join?" She was counting down the days, the minutes till that text came. She was determined to become a Reaper and provide a life of wealth, luxury, and food for her family.

But the week before the text came, she discovered something about herself that would change everything.

Everyone gets their magic from the entrance exam at Reaper Academy, at least that's what she heard. But on that first day, she learned the deadly truth. You don't go to the school hoping to pass; you go to the school hoping to survive. Now with her secret in tow, she must deal with elusive professors who have too much interest in her, enigmatic headmasters who speak to her as if she is a part of some larger plan she doesn't know, and Death himself, who seems to have a more questionable past than even her elusive roommate, Riven...

In a world where Death is celebrated, where does a woman stand with the gift of life?