Welcome to the Here & Now
Riley Bloom left her sister, Ever, in the world of the
living and crossed the bridge into the afterlife—a place
called Here, where time is always Now. Riley and her dog,
Buttercup, have been reunited with her parents and are just
settling into a nice, relaxing death when she's summoned
before The Council. They let her in on a secret—the
afterlife isn't just an eternity of leisure; Riley has to
work. She's been assigned a job, Soul Catcher, and a
teacher, Bodhi, a curious boy she can't quite figure out.
Riley, Bodhi, and Buttercup return to earth for her first
assignment, a Radiant Boy who's been haunting a castle in
England for centuries. Many Soul Catchers have tried to get
him to cross the bridge and failed. But he's never met Riley...