Sawkill Girls meetsThe Hazel Woodin this lush and eerie debut, where the boundary between reality and nightmares is as thin as the veil between the living and the dead. If I could have a fiddle made of Daddys bones, Id play it. Id learn all the secrets he kept. Shady Grove inherited her fathers ability to call ghosts from the grave with his fiddle, but in this haunting Southern Gothic, she also knows the fiddles tunes bring nothing but trouble and darkness.
But when her brother is accused of murder, she cant let the dead keep their secrets. In order to clear his name, shes going to have to make those ghosts sing. Family secrets, a gorgeously resonant LGBTQ love triangle, and a supernatural murder mystery make this young adult fantasy debut a haunting and hopeful story about facing everything that haunts us in the dark. But what other secrets will come to light when the dead begin to speak? A Haunting Ghost Story: Shady Grove can make ghosts sing with her fathers fiddle, but shell have to confront the darkness that comes with them to uncover the truth.
Bisexual Love Triangle: Torn between her feelings for her bandmate Sarah and the charming musician Cedar, Shady must navigate a complicated romance while her world unravels. Music and Magic: Steeped in the world of Appalachian ballads and bluegrass, the music is more than just a soundtrackits the key that unlocks the door to the dead. High-Stakes Mystery: With her brothers life on the line, Shady will risk everythingher heart, her life, and even her soulto make the dead reveal the real killers name.
Sawkill Girls meetsThe Hazel Woodin this lush and eerie debut, where the boundary between reality and nightmares is as thin as the veil between the living and the dead. If I could have a fiddle made of Daddys bones, Id play it. Id learn all the secrets he kept. Shady Grove inherited her fathers ability to call ghosts from the grave with his fiddle, but in this haunting Southern Gothic, she also knows the fiddles tunes bring nothing but trouble and darkness.
But when her brother is accused of murder, she cant let the dead keep their secrets. In order to clear his name, shes going to have to make those ghosts sing. Family secrets, a gorgeously resonant LGBTQ love triangle, and a supernatural murder mystery make this young adult fantasy debut a haunting and hopeful story about facing everything that haunts us in the dark. But what other secrets will come to light when the dead begin to speak? A Haunting Ghost Story: Shady Grove can make ghosts sing with her fathers fiddle, but shell have to confront the darkness that comes with them to uncover the truth.
Bisexual Love Triangle: Torn between her feelings for her bandmate Sarah and the charming musician Cedar, Shady must navigate a complicated romance while her world unravels. Music and Magic: Steeped in the world of Appalachian ballads and bluegrass, the music is more than just a soundtrackits the key that unlocks the door to the dead. High-Stakes Mystery: With her brothers life on the line, Shady will risk everythingher heart, her life, and even her soulto make the dead reveal the real killers name.