Psychopomp & Circumstance

Shirley Jackson and Nebula Award finalist author Eden Royce pens a Southern Gothic historical fantasy story of a contentious funeral in her adult fiction debut. Phee St. Margaret is a daughter of the Reconstruction,born to a family of free Black business owners in New Charleston. Coddled to within an inch of her life by a mother who refuses to let her daughter live a life other than the one she dictatesPhee yearns to demonstrate she’s capable of more than simply marrying well. When word arrives that her Aunt Cleolong estranged from the familyhas passed awayPhee risks her mother’s wrath to step up and accept the role of pompΓÇöthe highly honored duty of planning the funeral service. Traveling alone to the town of Horizon and her aunt’s unsettling homePhee soon discovers that visions and shadows beckon from every reflective surfaceand that some secrets transcend the borders of life and death.