Six Feet Under meets Edward
Scissorhands in Mortal Remains, a tight, smartly
written romance with an occult twist. Though her
classmates call her Morticia and Ghoul Girl, Lily actually likes
her work—the dead are good listeners, and they don't judge. Lily
learns their stories, shares her worries with them as she makes up
their faces, and embroiders pillows for their final rest. “The
way I figure it,” says Lily, “a person's arrival into this
world is about as unglamorous as it gets. The least I can do is
dignify their departure." Then, after a mysterious
explosion burns down a neighborhood house long the source of weird
stories, Lily and her friends poke around in the debris and come
across the hatch to an underground vault. Inside, they find an
injured teenage boy who has been trapped there for days. He has
little memory of his life before the explosion and speaks in an
odd, stilted manner that suggests limited interaction with the
outside world. Yet the boy, Adam, feels there is something familiar
about Lily—and Lily must admit that she feels a strange
connection to him as well. Could Adam be the boy who, years ago,
protected her from the bullying of a gang of neighborhood kids? But
when she finds out that boy died shortly after their encounter, she
realizes Adam couldn't be him… could he? Where did
Adam come from, anyway? And, most importantly, why was he kept
prisoner by his own father? Within days of the explosion,
my night terrors returned with a vengeance. In them I was
falling, always falling, until I heard the crack of bone and woke
screaming, my hair plastered to my sweat-drenched
cheeks. I knew I’d only find peace when I’d put the
question of Adam’s fate to rest once and for all. It
became my obsession. . . .
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