Rose of Jericho
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3.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $21.99
Publisher Description
The USA Today bestselling follow-up to Red Rabbit, Rose of Jericho is a supernatural horror where ghosts and ghouls are the least of a witch’s problems in nineteenth-century New England.
Something wicked is going on in the town of Ascension. A mother wasting away from cancer is suddenly up and about. A boy trampled by a milk cart walks away from the accident. A hanged man can still speak, broken neck and all.
The dead are not dying.
When Rabbit and Sadie Grace accompany their friend Rose to Ascension to help take care of her ailing cousin, they immediately notice that their new house, Bethany Hall, is occupied by dozens of ghosts. And something is waiting for them in the attic.
The villagers of Ascension are unwelcoming and wary of their weird visitors. As the three women attempt to find out what’s happening in the town, they must be careful not to be found out. But a much larger—and more dangerous—force is galloping straight for them…
Also by Alex Grecian:
Red Rabbit
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Grecian builds on the supernatural shenanigans of his previous weird western, Red Rabbit, with this ghoulishly entertaining variation on the zombie theme. In a preamble set in 1881 Kansas, enraged ex–Union soldier Moses Burke guns down the Grim Reaper, whom he believes to be responsible for the premature death of his young wife. When Moses discovers that the Reaper had a ledger full of future appointments with souls to be harvested, none of whom will now make their exit dates on time, he embarks for Ascension, Mass., seeking the assistance of allies from his earlier adventure—schoolteacher Rose Nettles and her witch companions Sadie and Rabbit Grace—to rectify his wrong. Meanwhile, in Ascension, matters of life and death are going off the rails: the terminally ill are rising from their deathbeds, the fatally maimed are conducting business as usual, and the corpses that should be piling up are not—nor are they (as news reports reveal) anywhere else in the nation. As the characters flail about trying to restore the natural order, Grecian paints a colorful portrait of a more superstitious America where the death of Death is believable and ghosts and angels shape the outcome of the grotesque incidents that follow. The result is a refreshingly original period dark fantasy.
