Even Eddie hadn’t thought of it that way before. Little meerkat, with your head always sticking up to see. Like meerkats, Rebecca had said, not too long ago. Like guards, Trudi had said, the one time Eddie could ever remember her coming up here. Like little soldiers, Uncle Benny had said the first time he’d seen them set out this way, and he’d smiled wide through his white cat whiskers.
He had the pinecone men Joel had carved arrayed across his pillow, standing up fat on their pinecone bottoms. He’d been nestling in the mound of blankets on his top bunk. Read moreĮddie heard the commotion all the way upstairs. In their own ways, they are all monsters.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. These people are drawn together from across the United States, bound by love and hatred, by the desire for reunification and for revenge. Herself, and one special girl, Aunt Sally’s last chance to be a perfect mother. When her existence was exposed to the human world, she didn’t hesitate to destroy her home, and her offspring, to save herself. It only matters that Sophie is a vampire.Īunt Sally loved all the monsters she’d created in the hundreds of years since she died and rose again. It doesn’t matter that Sophie’s baby died so that Jess’s grandson could live. To Jess, it doesn’t matter that Sophie was once as close to her as her own daughter.
Sophie is determined to protect the people she loves best in the world-but she is a monster.
Thousands of miles away, another victim rises-a dead woman who still lives. Emilia feels sorry for him-like her, he is always alone. Alone save for one last patron, his head completely swathed in bandages, his hands gloved, not one inch of skin exposed. Librarian Emilia is alone in a library that is soon to close its doors forever. Glen Hirshberg's critically-acclaimed trilogy comes to a shattering conclusion that proves that this International Horror Guild and Shirley Jackson Award winner understands the true depths and heights of this thing called life. “Brilliantly dark, captivating.”-Elizabeth Hand on Good Girls
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