Till the Last Beat of My Heart

(Hardback)

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In this YA contemporary fantasy, the teen son of the local mortician accidentally reanimates the dead body of the boy he had more than friendly feelings for, but can he keep him alive for good before their time runs out Perfect for fans of Cemetery Boys and The Taking of Jake Livingston!

When you grow up in a funeral home, death is just another part of life. But for sixteen-year-old Jaxon Santiago-Noble, its also part of his familys legacy. Most dead bodies in the town of Jacobs Barrow wind up at Jaxons house; his mom is the local mortician, after all. He doesnt usually pay them much mind, but when Christian Reyes is brought in after a car accident, Jaxons world is turned upside down.

There are a lot of things Jaxon wishes he could have said to his once best friend and first crush. When he accidentally resurrects Christian, Jaxon might finally have that chance. But the more he learns about his newfound necromancy, the more he grasps that Christians running on borrowed timeand it's almost out.

As he navigates dark, mysterious magics and family secrets, Jaxon realizes that stepping into an inherited power may also mean opening up old family wounds if he wants to keep the boy he may be falling for alive for good.

Author Bio

Louangie Bou-Montes was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, and grew up flitting back and forth between rural Western Mass and el campo in Guayama, Puerto Rico, surrounded by countless cousins in both locations. Thanks to those cousins, she was raised on a healthy diet of everything from The Addams Family to Silent Hill to Pet Sematary, resulting in a love of telling stories about Puerto Rican kids with morbid hobbies and senses of humor. After graduating with a BA in English from UMass Amherst, she spent nearly a decade working as a high school educator, mostly focused in special education, trauma-informed teaching, and ELL. On any given day, you can find Louangie at home playing video games or watching cooking shows and horror movies with her spouse.