![]() ![]() Once again, Amelia is working in an isolated, overgrown graveyard, and once again she always stays until sunset, thus putting herself at the mercy of a host of ghosts and other entities-some quite sinister-who come out only at night. ![]() They erected all these fine monuments to honor the dead, but they couldn't or wouldn't give them their names." Woodbine's caretaker explains to Amelia, "Woodbine is where the well-to-do used to bury their secrets.Their bastards and mistresses.People they kept on the fringes of their lives. ![]() Although the author does provide minimal context for some of the events, she doesn't provide enough background for new readers to fully integrate the past events into the current story line.Īmelia is restoring Charleston's Woodbine Cemetery, a small, badly neglected burial ground in which the graves have no names, just expensive, anonymous headstones. Let me begin by saying that this is not a standalone novel because Stevens frequently reaches back to events in previous book, particularly The Kingdom. ![]()
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