When sixteen-year-old workaholic Merit Boatman dies in a traffic accident, her only chance to avoid an eternity as a beer wench serving stinky warriors in the hall of Valhalla is to do a favor for Loki, the (mostly) evil Viking god of mischief. He forces her to go undercover at Ferryman and company, an office of death gods who escort souls to the afterlife, to figure out why souls are disappearing before they make it to the next world. If she doesn't pull the situation out of the fire in seven days, Loki will set aside a special corner of Hell just for her.

With a (mostly) evil god breathing acid down her neck and an insane crush on a three-hundred-year-old Samurai to deal with, Merit will have to put her newfound lust for life on the line to face down an ancient monster driven to consume her soul.