Some souls refuse to die quietly. Others weren’t supposed to survive at all.

Aiko Tanaka has seen ghosts since she was seven. Not the whispery, floaty kind, but the violent, clinging kind. The kind that scream. The kind that kill.

Branded as “crazy” by the living and haunted by the dead, Aiko just wants to live a normal life. But when her ability to connect with lingering souls starts attracting creatures called Nox, monsters born from forgotten grudges. Heaven sends her a handler:

Kael, an arrogant, silver-haired Reaper who thinks humans are selfish, stupid, and utterly beneath him.

Unfortunately, they’re now bound by divine contract. If she dies, so does he. If he breaks the rules, by feeling, by touching, by caring, he’ll start to unravel. Literally.

Together, they must guide lost souls to peace, uncover why the Nox are evolving, and face truths neither of them are ready to admit. Like the fact that Kael may have once been human. Or that Aiko’s mother never really moved on.

And maybe, just maybe…
they were never meant to meet.
But they were destined to break the rules.

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WHEN A SOUL BREAKS THE RULES