Thursday at Midnight

"The numbers haven't recovered in six months." Miura Sei sets down the report, and another mangaka's dream dies quietly across the table. He does this with precision and without apology. He is, as the industry has named him, the man who kills series.

He is very good at it.

What Miura Sei is not good at-what he has never had to be good at-is grief. When Haruki, the beloved creator of an unfinished manga, dies before completing his serialization, Sei finds himself drawn to the man's Shimokitaza...