Dead Man's Brew

Ex-reaper Aiden Crow runs a 24-hour cafe in downtown. By day he makes lattes for office workers. By night he serves espresso to ghosts. Three centuries ago he was the Council's reaper, collecting souls and earning merit with every kill. Then he spared a pregnant woman on his last job. The Death Council sentenced him to repay two thousand life-debts in the mortal realm. One hundred years to fill the tracker on his wrist, one saved life at a time. Problem is: no one he saves remembers owing him. Worse, the Council auditor sent to monitor him is Leah Vaughn—daughter of the woman he spared—and she wants him dead. When the cafe's back door opens to his final execution scene from three centuries ago, when the debt tracker lights up for lives he never saved, Aiden realizes this redemption game was rigged from the start.