altheaann

I was really pleasantly surprised by this book, the first I'd read by this author.
She doesn't an excellent job of mixing the familiar and the original to create a fun and emotionally touching story.
It reminded me a bit, in tone, of Marion Zimmer Bradley's "Ghostlight" series, but I actually liked this better.
There's a small, insular town in the South where, instead of being desperate to get away, people who were born their always find themselves coming back. Tradition has it that anyone born their must also be buried there. Little do most of them know that their peaceful lives and their odd traditions are part of a magical contract drawn up hundreds of years ago.
But when the terms of that contract are not fulfilled, the dead walk...
Sympathetic characters, ghostie zombies, a dashing devil, a dash of romance... I hope there's a sequel!