Installment Immortality
An InCryptid Novel
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Seanan McGuire’s New York Times-bestselling and Hugo Award-nominated InCryptid series continues with a whirlwind adventure....
After four generations of caring for the Price family, Mary Dunlavy has more than earned a break from the ongoing war with the Covenant of St. George. Instead, what she's getting is a new employer in the form of the anima mundi, Earth's living soul made manifest, and a new assignment: to hunt down the Covenant agents on the East Coast and make them stop imprisoning America's ghosts.
All in a day's work for a phantom nanny, even one who'd really rather be teaching her youngest charges how to read.
One ghost can't take on the entire Covenant without backup, which is how she winds up on a road trip with the still-mourning Elsie and the slowly collapsing Arthur, both of whom are reeling in their own way from the loss of their mother. New allies and new enemies await in Worcester, Massachusetts, where the path of the haunting leads.
With the anima mundi demanding results and Mary's newfound freedom at stake, it's down to Mary to make sure that everyone gets out of this adventure alive.
It's been a long afterlife, but Mary Dunlavy's not ready to be exorcised quite yet.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Following on the heels of 2024's Aftermarket Afterlife, the deeply satisfying 14th installment of McGuire's InCryptid series finds ghostly babysitter Mary Dunlavey attempting to redefine her purpose, powers, and relationship to the family she's protected for so long. With the destruction of the mystical crossroads that both employed and controlled her, Mary is finally able to focus on her favorite job: watching over the Price-Healy family as they wage war against the monster-slaying Covenant of St. Georg. But now the anima mundi, the living spirit of the Earth itself, has an assignment for Mary: Covenant agents are capturing, torturing, and destroying ghosts, and Mary must stop them at all costs. She recruits Elsie and Arthur Harrington—extended members of the Price-Healy clan who are both grieving their mother's recent death and grappling with identity and family issues—to help. The trio head to Boston where the stakes ramp up as they try to protect the local ghosts before it's too late. Throughout, McGuire delves into themes of grief and trauma, both through her mortal protagonists and the assorted ghosts they encounter. This entry does an excellent job of further developing both Mary's story and the larger conflict between the Covenant and the Price-Healys. Series fans will not be disappointed.
