With school integration arriving in South Carolina, Jez and her twin brother, Jay, are about to begin the school year with a bunch of new kids.

The local police deputy won't stop harassing her family. Her beloved grandmother has just passed away.

nd, New York Times bestselling author of Dread NationWalter Dean Myers Honor Award for Outstanding Children's Literature! A Mythopoeic Fantasy Award winner!Debut author Eden Royce arrives with a wondrous story of love, bravery, friendship, and family, filled to the brim with magic great and small.It's 1963, and things are changing for Jezebel Turner. Add in a fun, magical adventure and you get everything I want in a book!' -Justina Irela. 'A poignant, necessary entry into the children's literary canon, Root Magic brings to life the history and culture of Gullah people while highlighting the timeless plight of Black Americans. Addison, award-winning author of 'How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend' Read more ISBN Humans and haints traverse historic land in search of magic and revenge, finding salvation and justice in unexpected ways each tale unwinds magnificently in Royce's hands. Spook Lights II takes us again South with stories that are graceful in the telling, and beautifully edgy in their details. Southern style-shadowy rice fields, creatures that assume humanity at will-where even the most damaged and delicate have their power. Y'all gather round for thirteen more tales of Southern Gothic horror: Boys find evil in their favorite sweet treat, a perfume shop that makes more than scents, a hurricane carries a mother's vengeance, a conjure woman lies dying, unable to name a successor.This is Gothic horror. Spook Lights II: Southern Gothic Horror (Trade Paperback / Paperback) Roma Gray, author of Gray Shadows Under a Harvest Moon Read more ISBN Bruns, author of The Gothic Shift You can feel the warm thick air, the rich history and legends, the desperation of the impoverished, and the deep horror of the betrayed. She brings a refreshing perspective to the table that paranormal lovers are sure to enjoy. The stories are rich in flavor and clever in metaphor, the horrors completely surreal or-far more unnerving-all too possible. Eden Royce delivers a sultry and spicy dose of Southern Gothic. The true horror is in what you can't see.until it's sitting right next to you. sulfur rich marshes-housing creatures that defy understanding and where the grotesque and macabre are celebrated. Soak in these tales of Southern Gothic horror: A witchdoctor's niece tells him a life-altering secret, an investigator who keeps a 100% confession rate.These are stories where the setting itself becomes a character-fog laced cemeteries. Spook Lights: Southern Gothic Horror (Trade Paperback / Paperback)

Spook Lights by Eden Royce