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Resurrection Girls – Ava Morgyn

Resurrection Girls is a story about death and grief, with maybe a little magic on top.

Three years ago, Olivia Foster’s little brother drowned in their backyard pool. And life for her and her family hasn’t been the same since. Her father’s working longer and longer hours. Her mother barely comes out of her room. But when a new family arrives across the street, everything changes.

The Hallas women are all intriguing, particularly Kara, who captivates everyone from Olivia to her family to her former crush. A strange friendship blooms between the two, leading the pair to do pretty much everything together – including writing letters to death row inmates under the pen name of the Resurrection Girls.

But the Hallas family isn’t everything they seem, and there’s more to this story than meets the eye.

The official synopsis of the story reads as follows.

"Olivia Foster hasn’t felt alive since her little brother drowned in the backyard pool three years ago. Then Kara Hallas moves in across the street with her mother and grandmother, and Olivia is immediately drawn to these three generations of women. Kara is particularly intoxicating, so much so that Olivia not only comes to accept Kara’s morbid habit of writing to men on death row, she helps her do it. They sign their letters as the Resurrection Girls. But as Kara’s friendship pulls Olivia out of the dark fog she’s been living in, Olivia realizes that a different kind of darkness taints the otherwise lively Hallas women—an impulse that is strange, magical, and possibly deadly."

Resurrection Girls is available on October 1.