Just because you're chosen, doesn't mean you want to be. Finally home, all Nicolas Percival Carnegie wants to do is sit quietly for five minutes and figure out who he's becoming after his latest adventure...but his plans are destined to be foiled yet again - because he's about to discover how terrible wrath can be.
Nicolas and his companions have meddled in the schemes of a powerful foe three times now, and that is one time too many.
Unleashing one of his most fearsome servants, the Maestro is bent on Nicolas's destruction.
But fate has something different in mind.
Finding himself somewhere he never dreamed he'd end up - even with his overactive imagination - Nicolas is instead thrust into the middle of a war whose outcome doesn't just impact life itself, but the afterlife too.
Cut off from his companions, he needs to try and survive as enemies old and new surround him with a single goal - to make sure the only place he ends up is the grave.
At least amongst the legions of the undead he may discover the answer to a burning question:
Why does nothing in Etherius stay dead anymore?