Gravekeeper
4 primary works • 5 total works
Book 1
USA Today bestseller and rising queen of atmospheric horror Darcy Coates returns with a ghost story that will haunt you long after the final page. She hears them whispering...
Homeless, hunted, and desperate to escape a bitter storm, Keira takes refuge in an abandoned groundskeeper's cottage. Her new home is tucked away at the edge of a cemetery, surrounded on all sides by gravestones: some recent, some hundreds of years old, all suffering from neglect.
And in the darkness, she can hear the unquiet dead whispering.
The cemetery is alive with faint, spectral shapes, led by a woman who died before her time…and Keira, the only person who can see her, has become her new target. Determined to help put the ghost to rest, Keira digs into the spirit's past life with the help of unlikely new friends, and discovers a history of deception, ill-fated love, and murder.
But the past is not as simple as it seems, and Keira's time is running out. Tangled in a dangerous web, she has to find a way to free the spirit...even if it means offering her own life in return.
Horror Novels Also By Darcy Coates:
The Haunting of Ashburn House
Carrow Haunt
Craven Manor
The House Next Door
Voices in the Snow
Book 3
"In the third installment of her Gravekeeper series, [Darcy] Coates raises the stakes…worried that someone may be using an army of the undead to take over the world? Coates has your number.”—Kirkus Reviews
Keira must decide if she should use her ability to contact ghosts to help the man who once tried to kill her.
Hunted and haunted, all she wants is to put her mysterious past behind her and move forward with her new friends as Blighty Graveyard’s groundskeeper. But then she receives an invitation to dinner at the local recluse’s crumbling ancestral estate. The mansion is steeped in history that is equal parts complicated and bloody—and at its center is the man who once tried to kill her, now begging for her help.
Dane Crispin believes his home is haunted—and that the unquiet dead clawing through the ancient house are after him. Unnerved but intrigued, Keira opens her second sight and discovers he’s right: resentful specters cling to Dane…and if she can’t find a way to stop them, threaten to consume everything in their path.
There’s something dark happening in the world beyond most peoples’ vision, and if Keira isn’t able to sever the ties between the living and the dead, the chained spirits may not be the only things twisted beyond saving.
More in The Gravekeeper Series by Darcy Coates:
The Whispering Dead, Book 1
The Ravenous Dead, Book 2
The Twisted Dead, Book 3
The Hollow Dead, Book 4
The Vengeful Dead, Book 5
Book 4
“Fans of eerie ghost stories will be hooked.”— Publishers Weekly for The Whispering Dead
When Keira first woke alone in a strange forest, she remembered only two things: that she could speak with the dead, helping them move on from the mortal world, and that sinister mask-wearing men were hunting her. She had no idea what she'd done to earn their hatred or what dangerous secrets she may have uncovered.
Until now.
Peeling back layer upon layer of the mystery surrounding her origins, Keira has finally learned that the strange masked men work for Artec, an organization profiting off spectral energy produced by hundreds of chained, tormented souls. Their goal is to spread their macabre cemeteries across the world, using the agony of the dead to extend their power and reach—and only Keira and her loyal group of friends can stop them. But there are still mysteries to uncover in Keira’s foggy memories, and as she prepares to fight for the souls of the tormented dead, what she doesn’t know about her own past may come back to haunt her.
More in The Gravekeeper Series by Darcy Coates:
The Whispering Dead, Book 1
The Ravenous Dead, Book 2
The Twisted Dead, Book 3
The Hollow Dead, Book 4
The Vengeful Dead, Book 5
Book 5
"Lovers of ghosts and ghouls will shiver with delight."—Kirkus Reviews for The Ravenous Dead
How far will she go to save the damned?
Keira is caught in a deadly battle. Her ability to help ghosts move on from the mortal world has made her a threat to Artec, a powerful corporation intent on trapping the tortured dead for profit. They’ve been tracking her for years and now, finally, there’s nowhere left for her to run.
Artec fears Keira and everything she's capable of. They will stop at nothing to eliminate her—including sending armed men after everyone she holds dear.
Desperate and quickly running out of time, Keira races to hone her abilities as she searches for a way to destroy the twisted organization for good. But at least now she's no longer alone. Her friends have offered to follow wherever she leads, even if that means a direct strike deep into the heart of Artec's central base...and to the certain death waiting for them there.
More in The Gravekeeper Series by Darcy Coates:
The Whispering Dead, Book 1
The Ravenous Dead, Book 2
The Twisted Dead, Book 3
The Hollow Dead, Book 4
The Vengeful Dead, Book 5
"Lovers of ghosts and ghouls will shiver with delight."—Kirkus Reviews
Keira, hired as Blighty Graveyard's new groundskeeper, lives surrounded by the dead. They watch her through the fog. They wordlessly cry out. They've been desperately waiting for help moving on—and only Keira can hear them. But not every restless spirit wants to be saved.
Sometimes the dead hate the living too much to find peace.
As Keira struggles to uncover the tangled histories of some of the graveyard's oldest denizens, danger seeps from the darkest edges of the forest. A vicious serial killer was interred among the trees decades before, his spirit twisted by his violent nature. He's furious. Ravenous. And when Keira unwittingly answers his call, she may just seal her fate as his final intended victim.
"The Whispering Dead was one of last year’s little wonders, a horror novel with a surprising amount of humor and heart among all its terrors. This sequel continues Keira’s quest to uncover her lost memories and bring peace to the spirits of the dead, but gives her a new enemy in the form of a ferocious ghost that refuses to go gently into that good night." —BookPage, 2022 Most Anticipated Sci-Fi Fantasy
More in The Gravekeeper Series by Darcy Coates:
The Whispering Dead, Book 1
The Ravenous Dead, Book 2
The Twisted Dead, Book 3
The Hollow Dead, Book 4
The Vengeful Dead, Book 5