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Author: Ryan, Lindy

Horror & ghost stories

Published on 18 July 2024 by Rebellion Publishing Ltd. in the United Kingdom as part of ‘the Bless Your Heart’ series.

Paperback | 400 pages
128 x 199 x 26 | 272g

Its 1999 in Southeast Texas and the Evans women, owners of the only funeral parlor in town, are keeping steady with normal business. The dead die, you bury them. End of story. Thats how Ducey Evans has done it for the last eighty years, and her progeny-Lenore the experimenter and Grace, Lenores soft-hearted daughter, have run Evans Funeral Parlor for the last fifteen years without drama. Ever since That Godawful Mess that left two bodies in the ground and Grace raising her infant daughter Luna, alone.

But when town gossip Mina Jean Murphys body is brought in for a regular burial and she rises from the dead instead, its clear that the Strigoi-the original vampire-are back. And the Evans women are the ones who need to fight back to protect their town.

As more folks in town turn up dead and Deputy Roger Taylor begins asking way too many questions, Ducey, Lenore, Grace, and now Luna, must take up their blades and figure out who is behind the Strigois return. As the saying goes, what rises up, must go back down. But as unspoken secrets and revelations spill from the past into the present, the Evans family must face that sometimes, the dead arent the only things you want to keep buried.

A crackling mystery-horror novel with big-hearted characters and Southern charm with a bite, Bless Your Heart is a gasp-worthy delight from start to finish.