Graveminder - Softcover

Three sips to mind the dead . . .

Before leaving her hometown of Claysville for the comforting anonymity of big city San Diego, twenty-three year-old Rebekkah Barrow attended more funerals than she could count with her grandmother, Maylene. The ritual was always the same: three sips from a small silver flask and whispered instructions into the ear of the recently deceased: Sleep well, and stay where I put you. But when Rebekkah is called home after Maylene is found dead suddenly, mysteriously, violently killed by an unknown intruder it soon becomes apparent that there was good reason for Maylene's odd traditions. Unbeknownst to most of the residents of Claysville, the small town sits alongside the land of the dead, a shadowy world of simultaneous, and often lawless, eras ruled over by the enigmatic Mr. D. a world from which the dead will return if their graves are not properly minded, the dead who have long been tended to by Graveminder Maylene.

Now, Rebekkah must struggle with more than just her grief. She's forced to deal with centuries-old dark secrets; a long-ago, unforgotten romance; dead folk who have been called forth to murder; a strange inability to leave the small town she's been trying to forget; and an unwanted, unavoidable new career as Claysville's Graveminder . . .

Melissa Marr is the New York Times bestselling author of Wicked Lovely series of YA novels: Wicked Lovely, Ink Exchange, Fragile Eternity, and Radiant Shadows. She currently lives in the Washington, D.C. area with her husband and children. GRAVEMINDER is her first adult novel.