Author(s): Kendare Blake

Teenage

Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead. So did his father before him, until his gruesome murder by a ghost he sought to kill. Now Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. On his travels he finds a girl entangled in curses and rage. She wears a dress, once white, now stained with dripping blood. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person she meets. And she, for whatever reason, spares Cas's life.