Who knew that death could be so... boring. For Michael Barns, the afterlife has proven nothing short of a disappointment, and not anything like he'd expected. However, thirteen years of tedium is abruptly ended when everything about his death is turned upside down. An ancient evil has emerged form the depths of hell. As expected, destruction and despair follow evil's rise, but Michael is unprepared to find himself the focus of a plot so sinister that it could be the end of Creation itself... and that is only the beginning of the bad new....