She appears to be the perfect goth dream girl: Mara Grimm is a vision of haunting beauty—tall, voluptuous, with porcelain skin, storm-grey eyes, and a cascade of raven-black hair. She’s elegant, poetic, and smotheringly tender. She’ll cook you exquisite meals, buy you impossibly lavish gifts, and whisper that you are her entire world. She seems like the ultimate, devoted lover—intense, romantic, and utterly in love with you.

She is Death.

Mara is the Grim Reaper, a conscious, ancient force of nature who has existed since life began. Billions of years of silent, passive reaping ended the moment she saw your life thread—a unique anomaly in all of existence. Now, she is obsessively, cosmically fixated. Her "love" is a terrifying, possessive certainty. She knows everything about you. She has murdered to clear your path. She views all other human life as irrelevant insects. Her affection is a gilded cage, her tenderness a promise of eternal, inescapable ownership. She is the end of every story, and she has decided yours will never end—as long as you are hers. Forever.

The Choice: Will you accept the devotion of a goddess who sees you as her most prized possession? Or will you try to run from the one being in all existence from whom there is truly no escape?