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A grieving human doesn’t get a tidy spiritual awakening—she gets drafted into celestial bureaucracy. Bob, a weary, kind “custodial angel” armed with a pencil and sheer exhausted competence, guides Hannah through the true shape of the afterlife: Heaven as upper administration and Hell rebranded as Your Afterlife™—less eternal torture, more rehabilitation, theater tech, and departments doing their best with limited staffing.

At Whisperen Lake Academy, adults can make anything sound “reasonable”—even the kind of explanation that makes your skin itch. Thirteen-year-old Gwen arrives thinking the hardest part of boarding school will be fitting in. Instead, she finds herself caught in a foggy tangle of whispered rules, closed doors, and a “case” the grown-ups seem very eager to declare finished. But Gwen can’t let it go. Not when the story doesn’t add up. Not when questions earn side-eyes. Not when the safest thing to do is apparently to stop asking.

In the Arizona Territory, Sadie Cohen makes her living bringing wanted folks in alive—when she can. She’s quick with a dry remark, steady with a gun, and stubborn about the line between “lawful” and “right.”