The Dead Walk in Pleasant Cove

Rory Newbourn-Garcia’s death magic only works in the language she was never taught to speak.

Rory can see ghosts, but that’s never stopped her from losing the people she loves. After her mother’s death, she moves to Pleasant Cove—the “Salem of the West”—and falls in with two witchy girls who treat curses like party tricks. But when one of them turns up dead, Rory plans to steal a soul from the underworld and drag her friend back.

Problem is, magic in Pleasant Cove is bound to language, and Rory’s connection to her Venezuelan roots is fraying. Her Spanish is shaky, her spells unpredictable, and the door she kicks open to the afterlife brings something monstrous crawling through. Now Rory has to undo the damage before the demon wearing her best friend’s face turns Pleasant Cove into Rory’s personal hell.