Her close friend John Bowie, in whom she also confided, has just died. 'Unable to shoulder the burden of caring for a woman who died so often,' Moxie disappeared from her life 20 years ago. Only a few people aside from Carol's shifty husband, Dwight, know that she suffers from a condition that periodically sends her spiraling into a coma resembling death and a place she calls Howltown. “With vivid prose and characters that leap off the page, guns a-blazing, Unbury Carol creates its own lingering legend, dragging you along like an obstinate horse toward a righteous storm of an ending.” (Delilah S.In a surreal, Wild West take on Sleeping Beauty, storied outlaw James Moxie must save his one-time lover Carol Evers from being buried alive.

“Bleakly lyrical à la Cormac McCarthy and Flannery O’Connor.” ( Library Journal, starred review) About six wonderful feet.” (Stephen Graham Jones, author of Mongrels) “ Unbury Carol is a Poe story set in the weird West we all carry inside us, and it not only hits the ground running, it digs into that ground, too. “Breathtaking and menacing.an intricately plotted, lyrical page-turner about love, betrayal, revenge, and the primal fear of being buried alive.” ( Booklist, starred review) Barker, internationally best-selling author of The Fourth Monkey) A breakneck ride to save a life already lost, proving sometimes death is only the beginning.” (J. The haunting story of a woman literally bringing herself back from the dead, Unbury Carol is a twisted take on the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale that will stay with you long after you've heard the final minute. As the players in this drama of life and death fight to decide her fate, Carol must in the end battle to save herself. When word of Carol's dreadful fate reaches him, Moxie rides the Trail again to save his beloved from an early, unnatural grave.Īnd all the while, awake and aware, Carol fights to free herself from the crippling darkness that binds her - summoning her own fierce will to survive.

The other is her lost love, the infamous outlaw James Moxie. One is her husband, Dwight, who married Carol for her fortune and - when she lapses into another coma - plots to seize it by proclaiming her dead and quickly burying her.alive. Only two people know of Carol's eerie condition. She has died many times.but her many deaths are not final: They are comas, a waking slumber indistinguishable from death, each lasting days.

defies categories and comparisons with other writers.” ( Kirkus Reviews )Ĭarol Evers is a woman with a dark secret. “This one haunts you for reasons you can’t quite put your finger on. Named one of the best books of the year by Newsweek. The New York Times best-selling author of Bird Box returns with a supernatural thriller of love, redemption, and murder.

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