Book description
The second gripping mystery in this stunning series that will leave you
restless. A must for all fans of paranormal romance. Something strange
is happening at Ellerton High. Jonas, Arizona, Summer, Phoenix: all dead
within a year. And then they appear before Darina, Phoenix's
grief-stricken girlfriend - beautiful and sub-human. They are the
Beautiful Dead, souls in limbo, and they need Darina's help to right the
wrong linked to their deaths, and finally set them free … After helping
Jonas, it's time for Darina to unscramble Arizona's mysterious death.
It's been ten months since Arizona drowned in Hartmann Lake. Suicide, it
would seem. But something doesn't add up. Drowning herself in a
hidden-away lake does not sound like strong, confident, Arizona:
Ellerton High School's high-maintenance drama queen. Darina needs to
help Arizona the way she helped Jonas. But the Beautiful Dead are in
danger, and time is running out ... Eden Maguire lives part of the
time in the US, where she enjoys the big skies and ice-capped mountains
of Colorado. An abandoned farmstead two hours south west of Denver gave
her the perfect setting for The Beautiful Dead. "It was as if time
had stood still," she says of her first chance visit to the ranch.
"The kitchen still had the old rocking-chair and iron stove, the
ancient barn door really did blow open and shut in the wind." It
was here that the seed for a series of paranormal romance mysteries was
sown. Eden Maguire's lifelong admiration for Emily Bronte's timeless
classic, Wuthering Heights, ties in with her fascination for the dark
side of life and informs her portrayal of the restless, romantic souls
in The Beautiful Dead. Away from her interest in the supernatural and
the solitary pursuit of writing fiction, Eden's life is lived as much as
possible in the outdoors, thanks to ranch-owning friends in Colorado.
She says, "Put me on a horse and point me towards a mountain -
that's where I find my own personal paradise."
