When Winston Carver—a wealthy ghost hunter and tech pioneer—dies under strange circumstances, his nephew Marques inherits ten experimental cards capable of capturing and deploying spirits. In a world where ghosts are becoming tools for labor, violence, and control, Carver’s invention threatens to turn the afterlife into a battlefield. As Marques learns to wield the tech, he discovers one of the spirits is Winston himself—back with a mission to stop his creations from being abused. Afterlife Trading Co. is a supernatural sci-fi about legacy, power, and the dangerous business of binding the dead.