Death Collects Her at Midnight

Priya Rao builds machines for the dead, but the flooded morgue should have made her one of them. Instead, death god Ruhan arrives with a Living Ledger that rejects her name—and seven erased lives neither of them is meant to remember. Their search for the thief in the House of Last Doors may cost Priya her final future.

A mortuary engineer cheats death in a flooded morgue, summoning the reaper who has already collected—and erased—seven of her lives.