The grave keepers (First edition.)

Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Kelly Linkcalls Elizabeth Byrne's debut novel The Grave Keepers "e;a lyrical and gorgeously uncanny coming-of-age story of incantatory power. And Edgar Award-winning author Mindy McGinnis says of The Grave Keepers: At times deeply atmospheric and darkly haunting, The Grave Keepers takes us on a spine-tingling journey into a world much like our own, where more lies beneath than above.The Grave Keepers is a unique coming-of-age story set in a society obsessed with grave keeping.Lately, Athena Windham has been spending all her spare time in her grave.Her parentsowners of a cemetery in Upstate New Yorkare proud of her devoutness, but her younger sister, Laurel, would rather spend her time exploring the forest that surrounds the Windhams property than in her own grave.The Windham girls lead secluded livestheir older sister died in a tragic accident and their parents protectiveness has made the family semi-infamous.

As the new school year begins, the outside world comes creeping in through encounters with mean girls, a new friend, and a runaway boy hiding out in the cemetery.

Meanwhile, a ghost hangs around the Windham propertythe only grave keeper never to cross overplotting how to keep the sisters close to home and close to her . . . forever.