When Harry Baker dies mid-bowel movement and wakes up in Heaven, he expects eternal bliss. Instead, he finds a surreal afterlife run like a corporate dystopia - complete with rankings, job assignments, and God Himself appearing as whatever you imagined... even if that means a toga-clad hipster with mood swings.Assigned to the Department of Human Emotions - specifically Depression - Harry learns Heaven is less a sacred paradise and more a bureaucratic nightmare. Angels act like militant enforcers, rule-breaking results in demotion rather than damnation, and talking about what God really looks like is strictly forbidden.Harry's new "life" should be eternal peace... so why are people disappearing?When he befriends Matt - a charmingly awful rich-kid overdose case - they stumble into a conspiracy hidden behind pearly gates and performative holiness. Someone (or something) is manipulating the living through manufactured miracles and emotional control. The cracks in Heaven - literal and metaphorical - are widening.Soon Harry must confront the truth: Heaven is part of a cycle no one escapes.Not even God.As unrest spreads across realms, dead and living alike begin questioning their purpose. Harry - average, resentful, deeply human Harry - might be the only one positioned to break the system... or reboot it entirely.Darkly comedic, irreverently philosophical, and emotionally devastating beneath its snark, The Vicious Cycle is a five-book speculative odyssey that explores: What happens after "happily ever after" when the system is broken?Can flawed people dismantle divine control?And is Hell really the worst place you can go?For fans of The Good Place, Good Omens, and Station Eleven, this anthology-style series follows the souls caught in the cosmic machine - and the ordinary man who refuses to let eternity stay meaningless.