Mistle Child
About this book
Silas visits the ancestral home of the Umber family to learn ancient family secrets in this "dark and gothic" ( School Library Journal ) contemporary ghost story, the second book in the Undertaken trilogy. Silas Umber has finally come into his own as the Undertaker of Lichport when an invitation arrives: a mysterious word carved into the door of his house. Intrigued, Silas ventures beyond the marshes to visit Arvale Manor, the ancestral estate of the Umber family.There, he discovers that the extended Umber family may be dead, but they are not gone: Indeed, many of them still dwell in Arvale, waiting for an Undertaker to return and preside over the Door Doom, an archaic rite that grants a terrible power to summon and bind the dead in judgment, forcibly sending them to their eternal rest.As Silas reluctantly assumes the mantle of Janus, the Watcher at the Threshold, he begins to learn more about his strange and ancient family. And deep below the earth, in the catacombs and sunken towers, grim spirits grow restless at his arrival—hungry for freedom and eager for vengeance. As the only living Undertaker at Arvale Manor, Silas must put an ancient wrong to right, as he discovers that even a house of ghosts can be haunted by its past—for in matters of family, we are who we were.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Map
- Epigraph
- Prologue
- Chapter 1: Lighthouse
- Chapter 2: Earth to Earth
- Chapter 3: Bookkeeping
- Chapter 4: Regrets
- Chapter 5: Let Them Dream
- Chapter 6: Words
- Chapter 7: Angle of Approach
- Chapter 8: Washing Day
- Chapter 9: Man of the House
- Chapter 10: Highway
- Chapter 11: Old Straight Track
- Chapter 12: A Word of Welcome
- Chapter 13: Threshold
- Chapter 14: Room with a View
- Chapter 15: At Table
- Chapter 16: Keys to the Kingdom
- Chapter 17: Under the Earth I Go
- Chapter 18: Woken
- Chapter 19: Knock, Knock
- Chapter 20: Relativity
- Chapter 21: Stepping Down
- Chapter 22: Lost Child
- Chapter 23: Solar
- Chapter 24: Garden Party
- Chapter 25: Old Flame
- Chapter 26: Down
- Chapter 27: The Help
- Chapter 28: Ancient Light
- Chapter 29: Fallen
- Chapter 30: What's Past Is Prologue
- Chapter 31: Wake Up
- Chapter 32: In the Woods
- Chapter 33: The Book of Earth
- Chapter 34: Lullaby
- Chapter 35: Homeward Bound
- Chapter 36: A Promise Broken
- Chapter 37: A Hunting I Will Go
- Chapter 38: Curses
- Chapter 39: Coming to Terms
- Chapter 40: Moonlight Becomes You
- Chapter 41: Homecoming
- About Ari Berk
- Copyright
