Psychopomp & Circumstance

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A01=Eden Royce
American history
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Black history
border between life and death
Category=FM
character-driven
Charleston SC
coming-of-age
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freedmen
freedwomen
funerals
funerary traditions
ghosts
Gullah Geechee
heartwarming
historical fantasy
newly adult protagonist
novella
overbearing mothers
post-Civil War
Reconstruction Era
sensory details
South Carolina
Southern Gothic
YA crossover

Product details

  • ISBN 9781250330963
  • Weight: 234g
  • Dimensions: 134 x 210mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Feb 2026
  • Publisher: Tor Publishing Group
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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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 dictates, Phee yearns to demonstrate she's capable of more than simply marrying well.

When word arrives that her Aunt Cleo, long estranged from the family, has passed away, Phee risks her mother's wrath to step up and accept the role of pomp—the highly honored duty of planning the funeral service. Traveling alone to the town of Horizon and her aunt's unsettling home, Phee soon discovers that visions and shadows beckon from every reflective surface, and that some secrets transcend the borders of life and death.

Eden Royce is a writer from Charleston, South Carolina now living in Southeast England. She is a Shirley Jackson Award finalist for her adult short fiction, which has appeared in various print and online magazines. Her debut middle grade novel, Root Magic, is a Walter Award Honoree, a Nebula Award finalist, a Mythopoeic Fantasy Award winner, and an Ignyte award winner for outstanding children’s literature.

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