Ana is your average 17-year-old. She loves her boyfriend, her friends and is trying to hold her family together. One day something happens that catapults her into her destiny. Her family is killed in a car accident right in front of her. When Ernest, the grim reaper turns up to collect their souls, he offers her a choice. Live her life family-less, or exchange her own soul for those of her family and become his novice. Unable to even imagine a life without her family she agrees to his bargain and starts a 13 month journey towards becoming a soul collector. 
 But the deaths of her family may not have been happenstance and the people around her are not all they seem... 
 I found this book very hard to read and I only pushed as far as I did because I was given it to read and review. I don't think there was anything wrong with it really, beyond the point it was quite hard to get into. And at one point I thought I got interested enough to persevere. But it just seemed a little too same-y; I read a lot and it just seemed like it was following a pattern because it was supposed to. My curiosity definitely didn't win out this time which is a shame because I liked the idea of this story.