After Any Last Words
Mercy County keeps its dead.
Some are buried in churchyards. Some lie beneath forgotten fields. Some rest beneath river mud, hidden cellars, abandoned asylums, and old family secrets.
Undertaker Roland Hoye has spent his life giving the dead dignity. A grave. A name. A final resting place.
But Mercy County has other plans.
When impossible funerals begin appearing, when the dead start speaking through corpses, when a grinning doctor offers appointments from beyond the grave, and when entire cemeteries emerge overnight carrying records of lives that never happened, Roland finds himself drawn into a war older than the county itself.
At his side is his wife, Annabelle-sharp-tongued, heavy-drinking, impossible to intimidate, and carrying a secret tied to death itself. Years ago, Annabelle died and returned. Something came back with her.
As ancient debts awaken beneath the swamps of the Dunmire, hidden graves rise from the earth, and a black door buried beneath Mercy County begins to open, Roland and a handful of unlikely allies must uncover the truth behind generations of lies before the dead are claimed once more.
Part Southern Gothic fantasy, part supernatural mystery, and part ghost story, After Any Last Words is a tale of forgotten sins, stubborn love, buried secrets, and the simple belief that every grave deserves a name.
Because some debts can never be paid.
But they can be witnessed.
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