Book description
Not alive. Not dead. Somewhere inbetween lie the Beautiful Dead
...Something strange is happening in Ellerton High. Phoenix is the
fourth teenager to die within a year. His street fight stabbing follows
the deaths of Jonas, Summer and Arizona in equally strange and sudden
circumstances. Rumours of ghosts and strange happenings rip through the
small community as it comes to terms with shock and loss. Darina,
Phoenix's grief-stricken girlfriend, is on the verge. She can't escape
her intense heartache, or the impossible apparitions of those that are
meant to be dead. And all the while the sound of beating wings echo
inside her head... And then one day Phoenix appears to Darina. Ecstatic
to be reunited, he tells her about the Beautiful Dead. Souls in limbo,
they have been chosen to return to the world to set right a wrong linked
to their deaths and bring about justice. Beautiful, superhuman and
powerful, they are marked by a 'death mark' - a small tattoo of angel's
wings. Phoenix tells her that the sound of invisible wings beating are
the millions of souls in limbo, desperate to return to earth. Darina's
mission is clear: she must help Jonas, Summer, Arizona, and impossibly,
her beloved Phoenix, right the wrong linked to their deaths to set them
free from limbo so that they can finally rest in peace. Will love
conquer death? And if it does, can Darina set it free? Eden Maguire
graduated from Birmingham University with a PhD in English Lit and now
lives in the Yorkshire Dales with her two daughters, her horse, Merlin,
plus a dog and a cat. She spends part of each year at a ranch in
Colorado, where she rides alone in the mountains - her idea of perfect
happiness. Whenever she can, she loves to indulge her passion for travel
and take in the world's major cities, from New York to Nairobi - where
she can be found in the churches and temples, the galleries and
sculpture parks, and occasionally in the designer boutiques of Fifth
Avenue and the Champs Elysees. Back at home, Eden's interests include
cinema and theatre, plus art history and painting.
