Velveteen: How dare you? I never asked for you to hunt me down! It's a midnight blue-light special, and the sale of the day is on betrayal, deceit.and carnage. With everything and everyone she loves on the line, there's no way Verity can take that lying down.Īlliances will be tested, allies will be questioned, lives will be lost, and the talking mice in Verity's apartment will immortalize everything as holy writ-assuming there's anyone left standing when all is said and done.

George, informs her that the Covenant is on their way to assess the city's readiness for a cryptid purge.

It didn't quite work out that way.īut now, with the snake cult that was killing virgins all over Manhattan finally taken care of, Verity is ready to settle down for some serious ballroom dancing-until her on-again, off-again, semi-boyfriend Dominic De Luca, a member of the monster-hunting Covenant of St. Despite being trained from birth as a cryptozoologist, she'd rather dance a tango than tangle with a demon, and when her work with the cryptid community took her to Manhattan, she thought she would finally be free to pursue competition-level dance in earnest. The Price family has spent generations studying the monsters of the world, working to protect them from humanity-and humanity from them.

That thing that's getting ready to eat your head. Term officially coined by cryptozoologist John E. Any creature whose existence has been suggested but not proven scientifically. One's for the shadow, one's for the tree,Īnd the last is for the blessing of Persephone. Can she defend it, when Bobby Cross comes to take her down? Can she find a way to navigate the worlds of the living and the dead, and make it home before her hitchhiker's luck runs out? Rose has worked for decades to make a place for herself in the twilight. When Bobby Cross comes back into the picture, there's going to be hell to pay-possibly literally. The man who killed her is still out there, thanks to a crossroads bargain that won't let him die, and he's looking for the one who got away. She's been sweet sixteen for more than sixty years, hitchhiking her way along the highways and byways of America, sometimes seen as an avenging angel, sometimes seen as a killer in her own right, but always Rose, the Phantom Prom Date, the Girl in the Green Silk Gown. One's for the gargoyle, one's for the grave,Īnd the last is for the one you'll never save.įor Rose Marshall, death has long since become the only life she really knows. The second book in the Ghost Roads series returns to the highways of America, where hitchhiking ghost Rose Marshall continues her battle with her killer-the immortal Bobby Cross.

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