May 21, 2021
Rose Marshall, who has been a hitchhiking ghost since she was run off the road by Bobby Cross on the way to prom in 1952, finally has her chance at revenge. Now that the crossroads are dead, Bobby is no longer protected by his bargain with them. Rose is not the only one who wants Bobby gone--the queen of the routewitches goes so far as to arrange to meet Rose at a neutral location (a diner, of course) to ask her to kill Bobby Cross. The death of the crossroads has done more than make Bobby vulnerable, though. Rose feels responsible for protecting her niece, who was forced into a crossroads bargain of her own. Then there's the small matter of her boyfriend, who never got over her untimely death and now travels the twilight as a car so that he can spend eternity with her, which is a little awkward. Rose is a great character, never taking the easy way out, and fighting more and more for some measure of choice about where she goes next. McGuire, as usual, does a stellar job of taking a piece of familiar folklore and making it into a new, many-faceted thing.
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