Two centuries ago, on the battlefield, Tyler Hawthorne made a bargain. In exchange for his life, he became a Messenger—someone who hears the last thoughts of a dying person and delivers them to his loved ones.
Since then, Tyler has been forced to live a lonely existence and constantly move from place to place, so that others won’t notice that he doesn’t age. But recently he received a message of his own—that his long service is coming to an end. Tyler hopes to begin a normal mortal life with his beloved, not yet knowing that an old enemy is hunting him, and won’t stop until he destroys him…