At 3:33 a.m., celebrated journalist Ian Richards dies.He expects revelation.Instead, he is assigned a handler.Enam informs him that death is not judgment—it is administration. Ian has five days to give away his true talent before it is taken from him. Because unused gifts attract attention.As Ian watches the world continue without him, he must confront a brutal truth: the life he built may have benefited him, but it was never the point.In this literary speculative novel about inheritance and consequence, There Is Work After Death asks:What happens to the gifts we refuse to pass on?