Psychopomp & Circumstance
by Eden Royce
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"Set in an alternate, magical, post-Reconstruction South Carolina, this Southern gothic novella delves into generational secrets and self-realization. Phaedra St. Margaret and her socialite mother have never gotten along, what with Phee’s stubborn refusal to behave like a “proper” young lady. After her estranged aunt dies, Phee heads from New Charleston to the small town of Horizon in a cart pulled by a hippocamp to plan her aunt’s homegoing. Buried memories, mysteriously locked rooms and strange spirits lurk in the corners of Aunt Cleo’s home in this haunting story."
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