The New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the Wicked Lovely series delivers her first novel for adult audiences—a captivating story of the living, the dead, and the curse that binds them indelibly to two special families, the Barrows and the Montgomerys:
Maylene Barrow bears a special responsibility in the town of Claysville, a duty to the newly departed that keeps all she knows and loves safe.
Rebekkah Barrow, Maylene's granddaughter, left Claysville a decade ago, trying to put painful memories behind her.
William Montogomery has been Claysville's Undertaker and Maylene's best friend for a lifetime.
Byron Montgomery, following in his father's footsteps as the town's new undertaker, is tied to the Barrow women—first Rebekkah's dead sister Ella and now Rebekkah--in ways he is only beginning to understand.
But evil has been let loose in Claysville and now Maylene is dead. It falls to Rebekkah to return to the town--and the man-—she left behind to stop a monster and keep the dead in their place...