Connor Magnuson takes on the very personification of Death.
A penniless drifter, for the last eight years Connor has lived alone in a cursed forest teeming with monsters that devour people alive. Being forgotten and rejected by everyone, he has nowhere else to go—so every night he looks Death in the eyes, baring his sword, ready to clash with it. After all, the forest has long burned out all fear in him.
And yet it hasn’t hardened his heart completely. Then, out of nowhere, a cry of a mysterious girl rings out—and Connor is thrown into a brutal fight that nearly costs him his life. Courage doesn’t go unrewarded: after the battle, he discovers that he is bound to the most notorious entity the world has ever known—the Ghost King.
The undead bestowed on him inhuman abilities, but legendary magic always demands payment. Even with the help of creatures just as worthless as he is, Connor is declared an outlaw. Kings and lords know where the ghost has gone, and they’re ready to cut the drifter’s throat to take it. They consider such a commoner as Connor unworthy—just an error that needs to be corrected, nothing more.
But Connor isn’t so simple. He’s ready to drag his pursuers down into the grave with him, if he must, to protect what belongs to him by right.