Silas Umber believed his father, Amos, to be a mere mortician. However, one night his father never returned home from work and Silas discovered the truth. Amos was an Undertaker who attempted to bring peace to lost souls wandering in the there after.

Upon Amos' death, Silas and his mother decide to return to their original home, the town of Lichport. Silas decides to look more into his father's work only to discover the DEATH WATCH, the tool used to allow the owner to see the dead.

What does this mean? Silas is now the Undertaker and must go to the Shadowlands to discover more about his father - if he can make it out alive.

As a fan of "horror", I was positively THRILLED with this series. Although not "scary" in your typical sense, this is most definitely a gothic style novel with all the dark, dreary, dread you come to expect.

Ari Berk's writing is beautiful, magical, & you find yourself transported into a world that you wish existed or you could at least step foot into just once to see for yourself.

You connect with the character easily. We have all lost family & had to make the choice upon their demise, do we stop at this final moment or do you want to know more? Should you REALLY keep searching?

Thank you, Ari Berk. You have restored my faith in a writer's ability to put me in a place that I simply cannot put a book down. The world you have created has blown my mind and has me thinking, maybe, just maybe, death, when it comes, might not be so bad after all.