The Libri GmbH The City Beneath the Graves Paperback

Saint Mercy was built by burying what its leaders wanted forgotten.Condemned buildings. Stolen graves. Erased neighborhoods. Unmarked victims. Every injustice was covered, relocated, or forced into silence-until the buried city beneath Saint Mercy began to awaken.When a disgraced priest dies beneath a condemned cemetery chapel, impossible rooms begin appearing throughout the city. Buildings rearrange themselves. The dead return through doorways that should not exist. And beneath the streets, a twisted mirror of Saint Mercy-the Crooked City-is opening its gates.Jonah Rusk, a guilt-haunted architectural modelmaker, discovers that his miniature buildings are changing on their own. Simone Graves, an investigative reporter, receives a telephone call from her dead mother. Orra Bell, a seventeen-year-old foster child who can walk through architectural shadows, becomes the prime suspect in a supernatural terror she did not create.As Saint Mercy's annual Night of Remembrance approaches, the three must uncover the truth behind the city's stolen history before the boundary between the living and the dead collapses forever.Because every grave remembers.And every buried secret eventually finds a way home.The City Beneath the Graves is a dark supernatural horror noir filled with gothic atmosphere, psychological suspense, occult mystery, and German Expressionist terror.