In the third installment of the cosmic requiem circle series, this duo becomes a trio. When Death and Misery rescue Sercio, they find themselves with a half-human woman-child experiencing the outside world for the first time. Through the awkwardness of learning to care for someone other than each other while once again racing against time to save the Hellscape from villain after villain and helping Derek find forever after, they realize that love can take decades to marinate. Having learned the hard way that immortality has no guarantees and that they will forever race along time, they are then left to decide whether they want to run towards each other or away from each other. But being ruler of the underworld comes with job hazards and with the arrival of so many foes, this love story just might be over before it even begins.