The Girl in the Green Silk Gown

✍ Scribed by Seanan McGuire

• Publisher: DAW
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 262 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 075641380X

✦ Synopsis

The second book in the Ghost Roads
series returns to the highways of America, where hitchhiking ghost Rose
Marshall continues her battle with her killer–the immortal Bobby Cross.

Once and twice and thrice around,
Put your heart into the ground.
Four and five and six tears shed,
Give your love unto the dead.
Seven shadows on the wall,
Eight have come to watch your fall:
One’s for the gargoyle, one’s for the grave,
And the last is for the one you’ll never save.

For
Rose Marshall, death has long since become the only life she really
knows.  She’s been sweet sixteen for more than sixty years, hitchhiking
her way along the highways and byways of America, sometimes seen as an
avenging angel, sometimes seen as a killer in her own right, but always
Rose, the Phantom Prom Date, the Girl in the Green Silk Gown.

The
man who killed her is still out there, thanks to a crossroads bargain
that won’t let him die, and he’s looking for the one who got away.  When
Bobby Cross comes back into the picture, there’s going to be hell to
pay—possibly literally.

Rose has worked for decades to make a
place for herself in the twilight.  Can she defend it, when Bobby Cross
comes to take her down?  Can she find a way to navigate the worlds of
the living and the dead, and make it home before her hitchhiker’s luck
runs out?
               
There’s only one way to know for sure.
 
Nine will let you count the cost:
All you had and all you lost.
Ten is more than time can tell,
Cut the cord and ring the bell.
Count eleven, twelve, and then,
Thirteen takes you home again.
One’s for the shadow, one’s for the tree,
And the last is for the blessing of Persephone.

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Praise

Praise for Sparrow Hill Road:

“Hitchhiking ghosts,
the unquiet dead, the gods of the old American roads—McGuire enters the
company of Lindskold and Gaiman with this book, creating a wistful, funny, fascinating new mythology of diners, corn fields, and proms in this all-in-one-sitting read!” —Tamora Pierce

“Seanan McGuire doesn’t write stories, she gifts us with Myth—new Myths for a layered Americathat guide us off the twilight roads and lend us a pretty little dead girl to show us the way home.” —Tanya Huff

“McGuire is a writer to be reckoned with, landing stone-cold emotional blows in quick succession while simultaneously stringing laugh-out-loud moments alongside lush descriptions, knife-sharp badinage and quickfire action sequences.” —Strange Horizons

“McGuire applies a hard-boiled mentality and a keen appreciation for mythology to a blend of politics, magic, and romance.” —Publishers Weekly

About the Author

Seanan McGuire lives
and works in Washington State, where she shares her somewhat
idiosyncratic home with her collection of books, creepy dolls, and
enormous blue cats.  When not writing–which is fairly rare–she enjoys
travel, and can regularly be found any place where there are cornfields,
haunted houses, or frogs.  A Campbell, Hugo, and Nebula Award-winning
author, Seanan’s first book (Rosemary and Rue, the beginning of
the October Daye series) was released in 2009, with more than twenty
books across various series following since.  Seanan doesn’t sleep
much.