The Ferryman Institute, Gigl Colin

Ferryman Charlie Dawson saves dead people--somebody has to convince them to move on to the afterlife, after all. Having never failed a single assignment, hes acquired a reputation for success thats as legendary as it is unwanted. It turns out that serving as a Ferryman is causing Charlie to slowly lose his mind. Deemed too valuable by the Ferryman Institute to be let go and too stubborn to just give up in his own right, Charlies pretty much abandoned all hope of escaping his grim existence. Or he had, anyway, until he saved Alice Spiegel. To be fair, Charlie never planned on stopping Alice from taking her own life--that sort of thing is strictly forbidden by the Institute--but he never planned on the President secretly giving him the choice to, either. Charlies not quite sure what to make of it, but Alice is alive, and its the first time hes felt right in more than two hundred years.

When word of the incident reaches Inspector Javrouche, the Ferryman Institutes resident internal affairs liaison, Charlie finds hes in a world of trouble. But Charlies not about to lose the only living, breathing person hes ever saved without a fight. Hes ready to protect her from Javrouche and save Alice from herself, and hes willing to put the entire continued existence of mankind at risk to do it.