Lord of the Forsaken

Death has five faces. She was given to the cruelest.

Every decade, the human kingdoms send a tribute to the Death Lords to maintain the barriers between life and death. This year, they sent a thief: sharp-tongued, clever, and utterly unafraid of dying.

The Reaper is the most feared of all Death Lords. His touch means death. His isolation is absolute. But when she looks him in the eye and says, "You don't scare me, Reaper," something shifts in the eternal twilight of his realm.

Then someone beg...