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Book SynopsisFrom cartoonist Meredith McClarenco-creator of the acclaimed series Black Cloakcomes a punishing and poignant original graphic novel about the monsters that lurk both in the darkness beyondand within us all . . .Let it be said that dying is hard. Nineteen-year-old Ashley Moore found this out the hard way.
All Ashley wanted was to keep her head down and work hard until she could escape the small town where she felt she was stagnating. But after waking up one night covered in bloodand irrevocably deadAshley finds her foolproof plan for getting out has gone up in smoke, and something within her has changed.
Without a heartbeat and with a disturbing craving for freshpreferably bloodymeat, Ashley finds herself privy to a world that exists just beneath our own: a world of ghouls and monsters and things that go bump-in-the-night. Despite her desire to be left aloneand to not think about the night of her death at allAshley is slowly drawn into the realm of the unusual, getting advice from ancient vampires, dodging angry pack leaders, and becoming the reluctant big sister to werewolves Motley and Harrison. As she does, she finds it increasingly difficult to put away the parts of herself she wishes to ignorenamely, what happened that fateful night she stopped breathing. The truth, it turns out, can't stay buried forever.
In this visceral story about the effects of trauma and anxiety, dying is indeed hard. But getting on with it? That can be worse.
