Book description
When Rebekkah returns to her small-town home for her beloved
Grandmother's funeral, she little suspects that she is about to inherit
a darkly dangerous family duty on behalf of Claysville's most demanding
residents - the dead.
Everyone in Claysville knows that the Barrows are no ordinary family,
but no one can really explain why. When respected matriarch Maylene
Barrow dies suddenly her granddaughter Rebekkah returns to the small
town she grew up in, where she must face the demons of her past - the
suicide of her half-sister Ella, the person she was closest to in the
world, and the subsequent break-up of her parents marriage. And she also
re-encounters Byron, Ella's old boyfriend, someone to whom she has
always felt a deep and mysterious connection.
But the demons of the past are nothing compared with what the future
has in store for Rebekkah. Her grandmother has left her an inheritance
both wonderful and terrible. An onerous responsibility now rests on her
shoulders - one for which she is ill-prepared to say the least.
For behind Claysville's community-spirited, small-town facade lies a
dark secret. One that ties Rebekkah and Byron together in an
inextricable bond, and that will require them both to sacrifice
everything to keep their friends and neighbours from harm. 'No one
builds worlds like Melissa Marr'
Charlaine Harris
'A deliciously creepy tale that is as skilfully wrought as it is
spellbindingly imagined'
Kelley Armstrong, NYT bestselling author of the Women of the Otherworld series
Praise for Melissa Marr:
'Marr offers readers a fully imagined faery world that runs alongside
an everyday world, which even non-fantasy (or faerie) lovers will want
to delve into' Publisher's Weekly, starred review
'This is a magical novel… the first book in a trilogy that will
guarantee to have you itching for the next instalment.' Bliss Melissa
Marr was voted in high school the 'most likely to end up in jail'.
Instead, she went to graduate school, worked in a bar, became a teacher
and did a lot of writing. She is the author of the Wicked Lovely series.
