The day eight-year-old James heard his granddad’s death rattle in a tiny canoe was the day changed everything. Since then, with the ability to foretell, smell and even witness death in the eyes of both strangers and close associates, he’s tried to outrun the curse. But death chases him. It surrounds his every interaction and makes it nearly impossible to get close to anyone. It’s taken him to the shadiest of places – including a prison cell and the darkest of living arrangements. He no longer hopes to escape it. In fact, he welcomes death’s reaper.Until her. She is the first whose final demise is a blank slate. No matter how hard he tries, he can’t see it. She is the one. But will death finally catch up to her too?