There's a place some people go when they die. It's a hostile, ever-changing world, a place of nightmares: the After. Unforgiving environments await, with demons forever on the prowl for new souls. Zak's miserable life has taken a foul turn. It should be the end, because he's dead. But life isn't easy to understand, so why should death be different? Now he's been tossed into the After, wondering why he's there, left to ponder his life's mistakes. Yet now that his life is gone, he realizes how much he wants it back. But how? Even the After has hope. Zak meets those who can help him return to the living. But what else is waiting for him in the bowels of the After? Something menacing, something that will do whatever it takes to keep him there.