Graveminder
By (Author) Melissa Marr
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
17th April 2012
United Kingdom
Paperback
336
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 20mm
234g
When Rebekkah returns to her small-town home for her beloved Grandmothers funeral, she little suspects that she is about to inherit a darkly dangerous family duty on behalf of Claysvilles 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, Ellas 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 Claysvilles 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 Publishers 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. Her novels Wicked Lovely, Ink Exchange, Fragile Eternity and Radiant Shadows, Darkest Mercy and Faery Tales and Nightmares are published by HarperCollins Childrens Books. She has also recently compiled and edited Enthralled, a collection of paranormal novellas with Kelley Armstrong.