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Till the Last Beat of My Heart / Louangie Bou-Montes / Book Review

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TILL THE LAST BEAT OF MY HEART Jaxon isn't a stranger to death. He grew up in a funeral home, after all. He's been seeing dead bodies since he was a kid. But it's different when the body in your mother's basement morgue is, well, a kid you know. A kid you were friends with, until very recently. A kid you had a crush on, once upon a time. A kid who didn't survive the car wreck--DOA at the hospital, before they turned his body over to the funeral home. Jaxon's mom warns him to stay away from the morgue, but he can't help but venture down there. He has to see with his own eyes. He has to know for sure that Christian Reyes is gone. But Jaxon won't just be inheriting a funeral home from his parents. When he slips up and touches Christian's hand in the morgue, Christian suddenly wakes up, screaming and confused. And that's how Jaxon finds out he might just be a necromancer... and he might not have brought C

The Hollow and the Haunted / Camilla Raines / Book Review

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THE HOLLOW AND THE HAUNTED Miles Warren knows two things for certain: he'll be doing this job for the rest of his life, and he'll never get along with the Hawthornes. The family business might not be exactly profitable, but somebody has to commune with the dead, undo curses, and banish malignant spirits for the townies. At this point, Miles is used to digging up graves late on a school night. That's just part of the gig. But Miles's world is thrown for a loop when he gets a bloody premonition. At first, he thinks the face he saw in the mirror is a spirit that followed him home from the cemetery. He's an empath, after all, not a seer. But the visions grow more violent, and then... Then he meets Gabriel Hawthorne. The Warrens and the Hawthornes have always been at odds. The Hawthornes are snobbish, rude, and above it all. They're definitely not banishing spirits for whatever price the locals can pay. But now that Mile