In this action-packed finale to the House of the Dead Duology, Wren and her friends put everything they know to the test as they battle the living and the undead to save their world.

As boys, best friends Jeremy Cox and Rafe Howell went missing in a vast West Virginia state forest, only to mysteriously reappear six months later with no explanation for where they’d gone or how they’d survived.

The first letter arrived the day my husband was buried. It was postmarked from the state penitentiary, and contained a single sentence:

The Three Kingdoms are at war, but Meilin’s father refuses to answer the imperial draft. Trapped by his opium addiction, he plans to sell Meilin for her dowry.

When Anna Pendragon was born, Merlin “Through all the ages, and in the hearts of men, you will be forgotten.”