The Collector

After 650 years of collecting the souls of people who have made a deal with the Devil, Morgan Pym has had enough. He ask the Devil for the power to try to save his clients during their last 48 hours of life, by helping them atone for the evil that their deals have caused. But Morgan's client, a rap star, refuses to believe that his 10 years of fame and fortune are coming to a sudden end.

Morgan Pym's second client is prosecutor Carter Anderson, whose bargain with the Devil has allowed him to win all his cases for the last 10 years. Now, in the final days of his deal, Anderson's cases are falling apart, and all the people he has sent to prison are being released; all except one, who has taken a prison guard hostage. Does this inmate hold the key to Carter's redemption?

In an attempt to discourage Morgan from trying to save souls, the Devil gives Morgan the name of Nicki Schillenberg, a supermodel who is so self-centred, egotistical, mean and vacuous that Morgan nearly abandons his mission. But as her final 48 hours begin to wind down, Nicki starts to lose both her figure and her reputation; as her desperation grows, Morgan feels driven to try to help her.

When the Devil introduces Morgan to his new client, Morgan is horrified to discover that she's a 16 year old figure skater on her way to the Olympics...meaning the Devil must have made the deal with the girl when she was 6 years old.

Morgan's client is a photojournalist whose deal went horribly wrong.

In a suspicious series of coincidences, Morgan comes into contact with his newest client, a statistician who has been using the Devil's powers to predict the exact lifespan, whereabouts and circumstances of others to help mobsters rub out the competition.

Morgan's new client is a beautiful, brilliant young woman who is using her Devil-given powers to build a thinking robot that she hopes will improve mankind. But Morgan's efforts to save her are hampered by the continuing efforts of news reporter Jeri Slate to discover who Morgan is and what he's up to

Medium Laura McKinney has spent the decade since making her deal trying to use her Devil-given powers to find the soul of her dead son. When Morgan contacts her, she refuses to seek redemption until she accomplishes her goal.

Otis Hardwicke is a charming rogue who bargained for ten extra years of life in his dying moments. But while Morgan has no problem seeing the trouble Otis has gotten into recently, there seem to be only one lead to the harm from Otis' deal: Otis' long-lost friend, Bill Diggs. Otis has been searching for Diggs his whole life -- can Morgan find him before the clock runs out?

Morgan's new client, Edwin Yancy, turns out to be a sweet, gentle man who success has been in writing popular children's books. Morgan is puzzled by what harm Edwin could possibly have done, and his search is hampered by constant visions of death and violence from his past that he doesn't seem to be able to stop.

Ahneel Subramani is a Hindu holy man who achieved instant enlightenment by making a deal with the Devil...whom he believed to the Hindu god Shiva in one of his many disguises. As a result, Subramani is unworried about achieving redemption, because he doesn't believe in the Christian Hell, and his case seems to be bolstered when he successfully passes on his enlightenment to his students.

The chain of events leading up to Morgan's deal with the Devil, his time with Katrina, and ultimately his induction as the first collector are told for the first time in their entirety, as Morgan becomes overwhelmed by his memories of those fateful years.

Morgan tries to save a client who's being pursued by another collector.

During one long night, Morgan is tormented by memories of his past, from the time he met Katrina to the time he became a Collector. We begin with his conflict with the Abbott at Morgan's monastery over Morgan's early forays into studying medicine, a science-versus-religion conflict that left Morgan alienated from the Church and vulnerable to falling in love with Katrina at first sight.