The Bellwater

Sammy spends his days at the Bellwater's Hospital tending his only patient, Tink. Human by origin, Tink was stripped to his bones in a work accident. Skeletal and sentient, he spends his days taking advantage of whatever the Orbs, the Bellwater's elite, will let him get away with. Ordered to discharge the miscreant, Sammy sets out to do as instructed, but his patient has other ideas. Tink disappears into the mysterious Indigo Beam leaving Sammy behind to be touched by a Reaper.
Waking up three days later in Tink's room with no memory of what happened, Sammy finds himself to be anything but alive. When Alba, the Reaper that touched him, stops in for a visit Sammy learns that his near death wasn't quite the accident he was being told; and his grandmothers are missing. Angry, scared and worried for his loved ones, Sammy forms an alliance with Alba. Together they set out to find the missing ones, and right the injustice being done to themselves.

Short, fantasy novellas ending on a cliff-hanger. Themed toward young adults, not all situations in the Bellwater series will be appropriate for young children.