Death has been stolen-and the world discovers too late that mortality was never the curse.
When a cold, impossible beam rips Death from a child's hospital room, the final threshold vanishes. Hearts stop...and don't finish stopping. Wounds don't heal, but they don't end. Morgues become holding pens. Battlefields become warehouses of pain. Across the planet, the living learn the true cost of "forever." In Geneva, a desperate coalition launches Mercy One toward the anomaly's coordinates. Their envoy is a hospice nurse who understands what endings really mean. Their crew is fractured by politics, suspicion, and sabotage-because not everyone wants Death to come home. Somewhere beyond the stars, an alien palace hangs near a dead sun-an impossible museum built to collect wonders. And now it holds the rarest artifact in the cosmos: the harvester himself.