Don't lose your temper.

It was the advice Death gave to her the night before she killed her parents. In exchange for their lives, eighteen-year-old Estella Rome makes a deal with Death to take her instead, but she never expected her afterlife to consist of filling out death certificates and eating peanut butter cups.

But when her ex-boyfriend shows up with a wickedly cold shoulder and Death begins acting strangely—almost human—she finds herself trapped in the middle of a power-struggle between the entities who want Death's job, and the ones who seek to destroy it.

And she is the only person in their way of achieving it...if she doesn't kill him first.