"One day in every century Death takes on human flesh, better to comprehend what the lves she takes must feel like, to taste the bitter tang of mortality."
"This is the price she must pay for being the divider of the living from all that has gone before, all that must come after."
Sexton Furnival is jaded as only a sixteen (almost sixteen and a half)-year-old can be.  Bored and alienated, he's sure he's seen it all -- until he meets a strange girl named Didi.
Eccentric and lighthearted, Didi finds wonder in even the most mundane of events.  And if that wasn't already enough to make Sexton question her grip on reality, she also claims to be the embodiment of Death itself.
Together, the two embark on an odyssey through the streets of New York, where encounters with a two-hundred-and-fifty-year-old homeless woman in search of her heart and a madman in quest of ultimate power are only some of the revelations that await them.
Collects Death: the high cost of living 1-3 and Death Talks About Life.