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Lych Way, March 2014
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Mistle Child, March 2014
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Death Watch, December 2012
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MISTLE CHILD
By: Ari Berk

The Undertaken Trilogy #2
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
March 2014
On Sale: February 25, 2014
Featuring: Silas Umber
368 pages
ISBN: 1416991182
EAN: 9781416991182
Kindle: B006VJN3K8
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What Is Hidden in the Dark of the Shadowlands Should Never Be Set Free

Silas Umber returns as the Undertaker in Book 2 of the series

In life, in death: family remains.

Silas Umber has finally come into his own as the Undertaker of Lichport when a mysterious invitation calls him beyond the marshes to Arvale, the ancestral manor of the Umbers. There, his extended family endures, waiting for a living Undertaker to return and preside over the Door Doom, an archaic rite that grants a terrible power to summon and bind the dead in judgment.

As Silas assumes the mantle of Janus, the Watcher at the Threshold, deep below the earth in the catacombs and sunken towers, grim spirits grow restless at his arrival--hungry for freedom and eager for vengeance against a family with a long history of harsh judgments. Now, Silas must right an ancient wrong and accept that even a house of ghosts can be haunted by its past--for in matters of family, we are who we were.

Delving deeper into the haunting world of ghosts, ancestors, and eldritch lore, Ari Berk returns to the series that Publisher's Weekly calls "thought-provoking gothic fantasy," with a style the School Library Journal praises as "reminiscent of the classic gothic works of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Shirley Jackson."