'The first time I meet Patrick Braddock, I'm wearing his wife's lipstick.'
Edie works at the Elysian Society, channelling the dead for clients desperate for a few last moments with their loved ones. She is professional and discreet, one of the best in the team.
But everything changes when Patrick, a distraught husband, comes to look for traces of his drowned wife in Edie. The more time that Edie spends as the glamorous, enigmatic Sylvia, the closer she comes to falling in love with Patrick. And the more mysterious the circumstances around Sylvia's death start to seem ...
Longlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger in hardback, this thrilling and unnerving debut follows Edie who works at the Elysian Society where she channels the dead for clients desperate for a few last moments with those they have lost. When she meets Patrick, and spends time as his glamorous wife who tragically drowned, the circumstances surrounding her death soon appear mysterious, but Edie is already falling in love...
'[S]upernatural romance that thrives on imaginative world-building.'