Emilia and the man with the veil of smoke have set out for the ocean in a stolen truck. There’s a bloody handprint on his neck. She’s beginning to worry it’s hers.

Racing to deliver her mother’s ashes to the Atlantic Ocean, Emilia and Death will make stops – in Vegas, in towns that don’t exist any more, in an aspen forest, at the bottom of the sea – for Death to do his work, and escape three of his former colleagues who have been ordered to hunt down Emilia at any cost. And in between motel rooms and abandoned trains and a high school prom, they’ll have to face what’s happening to Emilia.

Death and the Maiden go on a road trip. Nobody gets out alive.

Art by Annie Wu and Ming Doyle; colors by Lee Loughridge; letters by Aditya Bidikar.

With original essays from Sarah McCarry, Veronica Schanoes, Stephanie Lai, N.K. Jemisin, and Ekaterina Sedia.