![]() Suspense builds to the riveting climax, though discerning readers will spot loose threads when the dust clears. Seeking answers, Mac forms an unsettling alliance with the guyliner-wearing boy who haunts the Coronado, but the handsome boy who saves her from a murderous History in the Narrows haunts her dreams. ![]() The mysteries extend beyond the Archive records of former Coronado residents are missing in both worlds. The Librarians’ vague explanation-“technical difficulties”-doesn’t satisfy Mac. Returning violent Histories to the Archive, always dangerous, has gotten harder. Tended by Librarians, most Histories sleep, but a few awaken and panic, a process called “slipping,” and escape into the Narrows, the passage separating the Archive and the living world. ![]() Keepers are tasked with keeping Histories-the recorded lives of human beings-from leaving the mysterious Archive, where they’re filed and stored after death. Mac’s good at keeping secrets: her grief, the psychic gifts she inherited from Da, her training and four years as a Keeper most of all. ![]() A refreshingly angel-free departure in afterlife fiction, this gripping supernatural thriller features nuanced characters navigating a complex moral universe.Īfter her brother’s death, Mackenzie’s parents seek a fresh start, moving into an apartment in the Coronado, a former hotel, to start a new coffee shop. ![]()
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