The Day Death Whispered

A world you can't wake from. A power that shouldn't exist. Sasaki Yuuki should have died in a traffic accident—and in a way, he did. He wakes instead in the Rukongai, the squalid outskirts of the afterlife known as the Soul Society, a place he never knew existed and can never leave. There, a girl named Rukia tells him the truth: he's dead, his soul is dangerously incomplete, and buried within him is Retrograde, a forbidden power that can rewind time by twelve seconds. It's not much. But it mig