The Ascension of the Seventh

Toby Whitman’s life is going nowhere. Stuck in the uneventful town he grew up in, Toby works as a high-school English teacher with aspirations of one day becoming a novelist. But when his humdrum life is abruptly shaken by a devastating diagnosis that challenges his attitude towards an existence long taken for granted, Toby is visited by the Sixth Incarnation of Death, who brings forth a disturbing revelation regarding his destiny.