Cemetery Boys meets
Legendborn in this
thrillingly romantic, irresistibly fun YA contemporary fantasy debut
following a teenage Chinese American ghost speaker who (reluctantly)
makes a deal to raise her nemesis from the dead.
Cara
Tang doesn’t want to be haunted.
Look,
the dead have issues, and Cara has enough of her own. Her overbearing
mother insists she be the “perfect” Chinese American
daughter—which means suppressing her ghost-speaking powers—and
she keeps getting into fights with Zacharias Coleson, the local
golden boy whose smirk makes her want to set things on fire.
Then
she stumbles across Zach’s dead body in the woods. He’s even more
infuriating as a ghost, but Cara’s the only one who can see him—and
save him.
Agreeing
to resurrect him puts her at odds with her mother, draws her into a
dangerous liminal world of monsters and magic—and worse, leaves her
stuck with Zach. Yet as she and Zach grow closer, forced to depend on
each other to survive, Cara finds the most terrifying thing is that
she might not hate him so much after all.
Maybe
this is why her mother warned her about ghosts.
Delightful
and compulsively readable, this contemporary fantasy has something
for every reader: a snarky voice, a magnetic enemies-to-lovers
romance, and a spirited adventure through a magical, unpredictable
world hidden within our own.