Fourteen-year-old Cote has a chilling secret that she isn't even aware of.All the poor girl wanted was to make a few friends, but her freaky gothic family made her almost too easy of a target. With weird purple eyes and pale skin, even she knows she's different from everyone else. Her parents work in the local hospital in the small town of Headless Hollow. Without much of an option, Cote relies solely on her only friend: A headless man named Darcy.Cote's father introduces her to their line of work and she finds out that it's not quite as innocent as they'd led her to believe. They don't run a morgue, they're Reapers. Collecting souls and ferrying them off to Dark Town, an Underworld city in another realm accessible through one of Pluto's Gates, which just so happens to be located right beneath the hospital.With a newfound partner in the form of a gargoyle convicted of murder, and a fellow reaper trainee who happens to be the son of a mythological God, Cote is about to learn a whole new religion, both literally and figuratively. Shortly after her acceptance into the program taught at a prestigious Underworld Academy, strange occurrences make every day harder. As Cote battles her inner demons and tries to adapt to a new lifestyle of fairy-tales and mythology come to life, she soon realizes that her perfect little family might not be so perfect after all.
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