On the surface, I have it all: a fulfilling career, eternity at my fingertip bones, and romance. But au contraire—romance is a strong word! It’s more like a bundle of complications: an Italian goth fanatic is head-over-heels crazy in love with me; I’ve got a secret crush on gorgeous Life; and, Life and Death are forever intertwined, with one never far from the other.

When Death asks me to take Life out on Valentine’s Day (he’ll be busy orchestrating an epic hurricane on the Sumatran coast), I’m all up for it. Dinner and dancing go amazingly well, and Death requests the same favor for upcoming Sweetest Day, when he’ll be whirling up a terrifying monsoon.

With Life being the center of my next world, I can’t refuse. The problem is the months in between, when I find myself in the clutches of a goth vamp who is hell bent on tying the knot in a lavish ceremony on Italy’s scenic Mediterranean beaches.

Will I escape her neurotic grip and be free to take Life out on Sweetest Day, a night that promises to be the second-best of my existence? Find out by taking a wild ride with the grim reaper in this morbidly delightful romp!. .