Eileen Battersby sa vo svojej tvorbe zameriava na hlboké skúmanie literárnych diel a ich vzájomných vzťahov. Jej kritický pohľad odhaľuje nečakané súvislosti medzi zdanlivo odlišnými autormi a žánrami. Svojím originálnym štýlom približuje čitateľom bohatstvo literárneho sveta. Jej písanie je poznačené bystrou inteligenciou a hlbokým porozumením pre umenie slova.
Find the dead a King, save himself, win the love of his life, live happily ever after. No wonder Marius dos Helles is bored. But now something has stopped the dead from, well, dying. It's up to Marius, Gerd, and Gerd's not- dead-enough Granny to journey across the continent and put the dead back in the afterlife where they belong.
Marius and his apprentice, Gerd are professionals - Professional corpse robbers that is. When they stumble upon the fallen King of Scorby on a blood soaked battlefield they get rather more than they bargained for, and Marius finds himself mistaken for the monarch after being rudely transported to the mysterious Kingdom of the Dead.