The Second Burial

Some secrets don't stay buried.In Mercy Cross, the dead are not always the ones who linger.After her mother's death, Maren Laveau receives a parish notice for an old rite known as the second burial: bring an object, speak the true thing, and the dead may finally be laid to rest.But grief has not finished with her house.A chair holds warmth when it should not. A pair of glasses keeps returning. A medicine cup refuses to disappear. And Maren's teenage daughter begins to show signs that what was left unfinished may not stay with the dead.To save her daughter, Maren must face the one moment she has spent years refusing to name and uncover the truth her family buried to survive.Set in a Southern town where memory clings like moss and every old house keeps its own account, The Second Burial is a haunting Southern novel about grief, inheritance, mercy, and the secrets that refuse to rest.