Once Dead, Twice Shy: A Novel

Kim Harrison

May 2009 · Madison Avery Book 1 · Harper Collins

About this ebook

In this supernatural YA series debut, a teen girl caught between life and death must fight powerful dark forces for control of her own fate.

Madison Avery’s prom was killer—literally. For some reason she’s been targeted by a dark reaper—yeah, that kind of reaper—intent on getting rid of her, body and soul. But before the reaper could finish the job, Madison was able to snag his strange, glowing amulet and get away.

Now she’s stuck on Earth—dead but not gone. Somehow the amulet gives her the illusion of a body, allowing her to toe the line between life and death. She still doesn’t know why the dark reaper is after her, but she’s not about to just sit around and let fate take its course.

With a little ingenuity, some light-bending, and the help of a light reaper (one of the good guys! Maybe . . .), her cute crush, and oh yeah, her guardian angel, Madison’s ready to take control of her own destiny once and for all, before it takes control of her.

Well, if she believed in that stuff.

Ratings and reviews

I loveeeeeeeeeeee this book. I Got it at Barnes and Nobles and the second one! I really need the third one. It's a great book to read!

Go deeper in the book, the better it gets.

Splendid, a very good book.

About the author

Kim Harrison is best known as the author of the #1 New York Times best selling Hollows series, but she has written more than urban fantasy and has published more than two-dozen books spanning the gamut from young adult, accelerated-science thriller, several anthologies, and has scripted two original graphic novels set in the Hollows universe. She has also published traditional fantasy under the name Dawn Cook. Kim is currently working on a new Hollows book between other, non related, urban fantasy projects.