When Diya Burman’s best friend dies, her life falls apart. She loses everything. But then she gets a new job: working at Slough & Sons, cleaning up after the recently deceased. Clearing away the remains of lost lives, Diya begins to see things. Horrible things, that can’t be written off as imagination. Nothing is as it seems with the Sloughs. It’s a dirty business, cleaning up after the dead, and if Diya’s not careful she might end up getting buried under the family tree.