The Debt Collector of Hell

Mara Voss didn't expect an afterlife. She definitely didn't expect a job interview. Turns out Hell isn't punishment — it's Accounts Receivable. Every soul carries karmic debt, and most people settle it quietly over a few decades of processing before being cleared for rebirth. But some debts never close. Some souls talk their way around the truth for years, decades, centuries — and someone has to sit across from them until the talking stops. Mara spent her life listening to furious strangers explain why they weren't wrong. Hell decided that made her perfect for Collections. Her first cases are small: landlords, liars, the quietly guilty. But buried in her file is Case #0334 — open since 1626, and never once accepted by a collector who came before her. Somewhere out there is a soul who's evaded death itself for four hundred years. And Mara is about to find out why nobody wanted the case.