Cade is a serial killer looking for redemption. Stix is a priest searching for revenge. Vaughn is a lawyer trying to find courage. Gale is just trying to get home. After each meets an untimely death they find themselves in purgatory. The three men attempt to help Gale find Death, the only one who can send her back to the living. Inspired by The Wizard of Oz this first book of the WOZ trilogy is filled with horror, suspense, and emotion as these four individuals fight for survival as they are assaulted by creatures, plagued by lost souls, and hunted by The Dark Angel.