SHALLOW GRAVES

A creepy, gripping contemporary fiction debut about a murdered girl who finds herself resurrected and must reconcile her former self with the creature she has become – and navigate a magical underworld she never knew existed.

Breezy remembers leaving the party – the warm, wet grass under her feet, her cheek still stinging from a slap to the face. But when she wakes up, scared and pulling dirt from her mouth, a year has passed and she cannot explain the necklace of bruises around her neck. She also cannot explain the man lying at her grave, dead from her touch.

Returning home seems impossible. Her parents and sisters have clearly grieved and struggled to move on, and Breezy cannot begin to answer their inevitable questions. Her heartbeat comes and goes, she does not need to eat or drink, she can see the inky memories of murderers, and she can somehow pull on this dark guilt to kill them. Haunted by the happy memories from her life and disgusted by the half-dead creature she has become, Breezy embarks on a reckless quest to find answers and a dangerous healing magic...but the cure is as dark and terrible as the disease.

Set in a gorgeous, terrifying world, Shallow Graves is a stunning novel about the heartbreaking trauma of a girl’s life cut short and her struggle to reconcile her humanity with the creature she has become.

Kali Wallace used to study earthquakes and mountains and continents, but now she writes stories. She lives in Southern California.