When Miranda Barnes first sees the sleepy town of St. Yvette, Louisiana, with its moss-draped trees and above-ground cemeteries, she realizes that life as she knew it is officially over. Almost immediately, there seems to be something cloying at her. Even at school and in the group project she’s been thrown into, she can’t escape it. There are shadows when no one is there to make them, the haunting smell of roses,...
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