The Practical Man's Guide to Cheating Death - Alice Scott

Step One: It’s quite simple and quite obvious, really, and someone like you who’s always twelve steps ahead will hate that you didn’t realize it sooner, because in order to cheat death, darling you first have to die

It's the early 1900s and Lysander Payne, haughty bisexual graduate student, is dead.
At least that's what he's told when he wakes up in a library where an amber-eyed man introduces himself as Death incarnate. Fortunately, there's an upside to Lysander's sudden demise: a chance to ask a single question that Death will answer to the best of his ability.
Whatever Lysander wants to know, he's welcome to ask. However, only one question and no more.
Unfortunately, Lysander Payne is much too preoccupied to remain dead.
Armed with the pedantic tendencies only a scholar could possess, Lysander aims to find a loophole, and Death himself might have gotten more than he bargained for with this one.

Release Date: March 12, 2024

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