Publisher's Synopsis
We all have moments in our lives when we see or experience something that we can't explain. Most people have stories from their childhood about seeing Santa Claus on a rooftop, a ghost in the basement, or even Bigfoot on a camping trip. When I was a little girl, my brother died in a car accident, and I thought I saw the Grim Reaper. After more than twenty years, I saw him again. Only this time, he didn't leave me alone.
In this first novel of Mortis, Eliza Fabricius takes us on a journey to the unseen world that surrounds our everyday lives with a deeper look inside the true meaning and connection of life and death.
Excerpt:
"There was a certain majesty to the mountains in autumn, when the trees that grew on the slopes began their show of dying colors. Even when the sun died beyond the western horizon, the sky displayed a rainbow of hues. This alone had taught me, even in the early adventurous years of my childhood, that there was something beautiful about the moment of death."
From the back cover:
When funeral director Theresa Fairholm is called to collect a body found on the local train tracks, she expected to have an eventful morning. However, she did not expect to encounter the Grim Reaper in the flesh. When he offers to recruit her among his ranking officers to help collect souls, things are set in motion, and a growing darkness begins to linger over her town-Old Midland County-a place she was still learning to call home.
As what becomes known as "the swallowing darkness" seeps into her, she must begin to face the demons of her past or become lost to the darkness forever.
