<div> <div> <div>Pin Carpue is on his own in the world. His mother is dead and his father is missing after being labeled a suspect in a rash of murders.&amp;nbsp; Pin finds a job working for the local undertaker as a body watcher, making sure people are really dead before they&amp;#8217;re buried. The body he&amp;#8217;s supposed to be watching tonight is currently surrounded by three people engaged in a most unusual ceremony. An old man, a bone magician, and his young female assistant are waking a woman so her grieving fianc&amp;#233; can have one last goodbye with her. Pin can&amp;#8217;t believe it will work, but then the dead woman sits up and speaks.</div> <div><br /> Pin is determined to discover how the magic works.&amp;nbsp; He cannot believe they are raising the dead. He cannot believe his father is a murderer. Then Pin himself nearly becomes the killer&amp;#8217;s next victim.</div> <div><br /> As this mysterious tale unfolds with delicious creepiness, Pin will learn more about the bone magician, the girl Juno, and a hideous creature called the Gluttonous Beast that is kept in a local tavern where people pay for a glimpse.</div> <div><br /> Once again, F.E. Higgins delivers a story that is full of intrigue and suspense.</div> </div> </div>