Three sips to mind the dead .

Rebekkah Barrow hardly ever forgot the interest her grandmother Maylene bestowed upon the deceased of Claysville, the small town where Bek spent her adolescence. There wasn’t a funeral that Maylene didn’t attend, with each one Rebekkah viewed as Maylene performed the same uncommon ritual: She had taken three sips from a silver flask and spoke the words ‘Sleep well, and stay where I place you.’

Now Maylene is dead, and Bek must get back to the place she left ten years previous. about Graveminder She quickly discovers that Claysville is not just the sleepy city she remembers, which Maylene had justification for her odd traditions. As it happens that in Claysville the worlds from the living and the dead are dangerously connected; beneath the city is situated a shadowy, lawless property ruled by the enigmatic Charles, aka Mr. D. If the dead are not properly cared for, they are going to come back to satiate themselves with food, drink, and tales from the property of the living. Just the Graveminder, by custom a Barrow woman, and her Undertaker-in this case Byron Montgomery, with whom Bek stocks a complicated past-can set factors right once the dead start to walk.

Although she is still grieving for Maylene, Rebekkah will quickly find that she’s more than a funeral to wait to in Claysville, and that what awaits her may be far worse: dark secrets, a centuries-old bargain, a romance that still haunts her, and a frightening fresh responsibility-to stop a monster and put the dead to rest where they belong.