The Hook
An afterlife run by bureaucratic corporate entities where souls are processed, rules are enforced, and everyone has a place.
The greatest threat to a system built on compliance isn’t a warrior or a prophecy.
It’s a nineteen year old girl who refuses to stop demanding answers.
The Story
After dying in a car crash, nineteen year old Dani Mannion wakes up alone in The Neither, the first stop for newly arrived souls.
Except Dani was never supposed to be there alone.
Her best friend Isa is missing.
And Dani wants answers.
Why are souls routed the way they are?
Who decides where they go?
And why doesn’t a single soul get the opportunity to decide for themselves where they’ll spend eternity?
The more Dani demands answers, the more she begins to notice things that don’t make sense.
Dani isn’t trying to change the afterlife. She isn’t leading a rebellion. She isn’t a chosen one.
She’s nineteen, grieving, stubborn, funny, occasionally impulsive, and completely unwilling to accept “that’s just the way things are” as an answer.
And without realizing it, Dani begins pulling at threads that some very powerful people would prefer remain untouched.
Because in a system where souls are expected to follow the rules, becoming a problem has consequences.
Problematic souls are corrected.
And Dani is becoming a problem.
