The Restorer
Amanda Stevens
My father’s rules. I’ve never broken them…until now. My name is Amelia Gray. I’m a cemetery restorer who sees ghosts. In order to protect myself from the parasitic nature of the dead, I've always held fast to the rules passed down from my father. But now a haunted police detective has entered my world and everything is changing, including the rules that have always kept me safe.It started with the discovery of a young woman’s brutalized body in an old Charleston graveyard I've been hired to restore. The clues to the killer—and to his other victims—lie in the headstone symbolism that only I can interpret. Devlin needs my help, but his ghosts shadow his every move, feeding off his warmth, sustaining their presence with his energy.To warn him would be to invite them into my life. I've vowed to keep my distance, but the pull of his magnetism grows ever stronger even as the symbols lead me closer to the killer and to the gossamer veil that separates this world from the next.
Praise for the novels of
AMANDA STEVENS
“Stevens makes her MIRA debut with this taut, disturbing story.
The characterizations are vivid, and it’s got a lovely twist
in the tail. Not for the squeamish!”
—RT Book Reviews on The Dollmaker
“Fast paced and plotted with spectacular precision and guile,
this is undiluted suspense at its very finest.
Nervous readers should read it in full daylight.”
—RT Book Reviews on The Devil’s Footprints
“Stevens’ swiftly-moving, intricately plotted story
has oodles of twists and chills—plus a jaw-dropping shocker
of an ending. This is good stuff indeed.”
—RT Book Reviews on The Whispering Room
The Restorer
Amanda Stevens
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THE RESTORER
CONTENTS
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine