Josephine is a skilled body snatcher, able to use her blood to possess others. Now Josephine Darly, who has used the magic for her own selfish purposes for a hundred years, has come hunting the spell book. Nick is too familiar with the dangers, but Silla throws herself whole-heartedly into them. The magic is real, and it promises power that can transform stone into water, heal flesh, and even resurrect the dead. In the cemetery between their houses, Nick watches Silla use three drops of her blood and ancient words to bring an autumn leaf back to life. When a book of magic spells in her dad’s handwriting appears on her doorstep, she sees her chance to unravel the mystery of their deaths. Silla, though, doesn’t want to forget her parents’ apparent murder-suicide left her numb and needing real answers. Here, he can’t help remembering his mom and the blood magic she practiced – memories he’s tried for five years to escape. Nick is a sarcastic city boy, angry at being forced to move back to the nowhere town of Yaleylah, Missouri. For Nicholas Pardee and Silla Kennicot, the cemetery is the center of everything.
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