Behind the paperwork
What if your memories, your desires,
even the person you believed yourself to be
were never entirely your own?
Ronald Milburn thought he was just a spirit.
For two centuries, he’s worked at the Afterlife Services Agency, helping the newly dead navigate what comes next while waiting for his own chance to reincarnate.
Then, one night, the woman Ron has spent far too long pretending he doesn’t want, disappears.
So begins a mystery, four hundred years in the making.
Ancient spirit files. Centuries of Ron’s records buried behind redactions. Somewhere behind it all, the Afterlife is preparing for its largest software update, and Ronald Milburn may be more than another spirit caught in the system.