UPCOMING NOVELS THE CEMETERY RESTORER SERIES Available 2011 MIRA Books Every cemetery has a story; every grave has its secrets. Dusk is a dangerous time for people like Amelia Gray. An in-between time just as the seashore and the edge of a forest are in-between places. The Celtics had a name for these landscapes—caol' ait. Thin places where the barrier between our world and the next is but a gossamer veil. Amelia was nine when she first became aware of the ghosts, those beautiful, nebulous, dangerous entities that drift among us, seeking what they can never have again—life. Therefore, they attach themselves like nebulous leeches to their hosts, draining them of their warmth and energy. In order to protect herself, Amelia has long adhered to the rules laid down by her father: Never acknowledge the dead Never stray far from hallowed ground Never associate with those who are haunted Never, ever tempt fate As a child, Amelia's playground was an old cemetery, a hallowed place where her father worked as caretaker. Alone and often lonely, she wandered through the lush fern beds and curtains of gray-green moss, pretending the stone angels and cherubs were fairies and gnomes and she their ruler, queen of her very on graveyard kingdom. Nowadays Amelia is a cemetery restorer, traveling all over the South, cleaning up forgotten and abandoned graveyards and repairing worn and broken headstones. The one thing her work has taught her is this: Every cemetery has a story; every grave has its secrets.