Lina Will

When building inspector Eric Vance dies in a workplace accident eighty stories above Chicago — killed by a pigeon, a frayed cable, and forty dollars' worth of budget cuts — he doesn't get the afterlife. He gets a job assignment.

Sarah died because of her cat. Not in a blaze of glory. Not saving a busload of children. Just one badly timed trip, one expensive gaming rig, and one furry little sociopath. Then things get worse. Sarah wakes up as a sentient dungeon core.

Rosa Delgado was a commercial saturation diver and certified underwater welder—until the System audited her dive log and reassigned her to a sector that’s literally falling apart.

She keeps the roads honest, and the spirits on speaking terms. When wagons bog down, animals panic, or the Wilds turn hostile, caravan shaman Anya Stormbloom does what ledgers and swords cannot. She bargains with Air, Earth, Fire, Water, and Spirit.