Dead Remnants

by Armarna Forbes

Overview

Welcome to the afterlife of Denver—where phantom buffalo roam and ghost factions wage war.

Seventeen-year-old Ashen Deming is dead, but she can’t move on. Not with the soul of her best friend on the line. He is stuck in a horrific curse—a curse no spirit knows how to break.

Ashen is determined to find a cure, but at every turn opposing factions try to snatch her for themselves. As the menacing specters close in, a new threat is exposed—one that looms over the dead and the living—and Ashen and her posse of ghosts have one brief chance to stop them. If they fail, the entire world will be lost to darkness forever.

But Ashen’s time is running out. If she doesn’t cross over soon, she will be damned to roam the haunted city for eternity.

Dead Remnants is a YA urban fantasy, filled with dark humor and spliced with historical flashback stories, revealing real ghosts of America’s ugly past. Perfect for older teens and fans of JOSS WHEDON, NEIL GAIMAN, STEPHEN KING, and GUILLERMO DEL TORO.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781916173606
Publisher:	Armarna Forbes
Publication date:	08/01/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	334
Sales rank:	819,796
File size:	408 KB
Age Range:	15 - 18 Years

About the Author

Armarna Forbes grew up in what remains of the Old West and likes to write stories about dead things. She now lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with her husband, Chris, and their two cats, Jack and Loki.

Table of Contents

Part One: Denial
    1  People in Hats Can't Be Trusted
    2  Ashen: Along Came a Shadow
    3  Beginning of the End
    4  Into the Belly of the Mountain
    5  The Dead Ain’t Special
    6  Macajah: Agnes

Part Two: Anger
    7  The Warders’ Code
    8  The Old Woman and the Duck
    9  The Third Offense
    10  Engine 191
    11  Monsters
    12  Angry Fox: The Trail Where They Cried

Part Three: Bargaining
    13  Into the Looking Glass
    14  Windsor Lake
    15  Max: Operation Neptune

Part Four: Depression
    16  Finding Jacob
    17  No Dang Sense
    18  Death of a People
    19  Vana: Manifest Destiny
    20  Decisions
    21  A Dark Cloud Rises

Part Five: Acceptance
    22  Back in the Mines
    23  Awake
    24  John: Sizzlin’ Sally
    25  Mists on the Prairie
    26  Flying
    27  Reigned Over by the Dead
    28  A Ghost’s Death

Editorial Reviews

05/25/2020

When high school senior Ashen Deming dies in a bus crash, she finds herself in an afterlife where tensions mount between Warders of the dead and Light and Unseen spirits. On a bus with her best friend, Jacob, Ash dies in an explosion and wakes to a world that blends the dead with the living—a ghost world with the living world just out of phase. Ash must choose to go through the Divide or to side with the Warders, Light, or Unseen, but all she truly wants is to find Jacob. Navigating the afterlife with an old cowboy named Macajah and Max, a WWII soldier, Ashen learns about Drifters—souls stuck in a “nightmarish limbo”—like Jacob. When a war ensues for the right to the souls of the living, Ash is caught fighting for Jacob and all mortal souls. Though some scenes feel excessively graphic and the lore is initially insufficiently explained, Forbes’s creative debut offers a fanciful take on the afterlife, interwoven with Native and Western history. Ages 14–up. (Self-published)

Publishers Weekly

"A page-turning novel that looks at big questions through the unexpected coming-of-age (after death)..."



"If you want something that will spark your imagination, that will take you on a journey through the past and into the underworld, and you like a bit of supernatural fantasy, this is for you."



"The action moves fast, and every word matters. This is a book you can't skim, and you won't be able to put down. It will stay with you, long after you finish. Highly recommended."



"This is one of the more enjoyable novels I've read this year: standout characters, a unique afterlife setting, and a fast-paced plot that rockets toward an exciting final showdown between the forces of light and dark..."



"Full of history and paranormal action; a time-shifting urban setting with an old-school undead cowboy—terrifically fun but still tugs at your heartstrings. A winner!"



"A great read! The characters are awesome, I especially love Macajah. The story kept me engaged all the way through. Recommended."



"A fast-paced urban fantasy with memorable characters. I particularly liked the flashback historical fiction chapters interspersed throughout, but the whole thing is well worth a read."

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