May the Dead Keep You

Name: May the Dead Keep You
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ISBN: 9780316606820

Jill Baguchinsky

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Little, Brown Young Readers
23 June 2026

General fiction (Children's&YA); Horror & ghost stories, chillers (Children's&YA); Personal & social issues: bullying, violence & abuse (Children's&YA)

There's nowhere Catie East would rather be than the redwood forest that surrounds her family's unusual historic home, the Heights.

She prefers being alone in the forest. People are...complicated. But when a scientist and his son move into the estate's cottage, planning to study the woods around them, the boy catches Catie's eye. And when a dead woodpecker miraculously comes back to life in his precious hands...he captures her heart.

Necromancy isn't the only strange thing happening in the Heights.

There's an unfamiliar face in the mirror. Blood on the floors. Eyes in the wallpaper. And the men around her-including her once-sweet nature boy-are becoming something else. Something possessive and frightening. Something violent.

As the Heights's dark history starts to come to light, Catie discovers that the home she loves is imbued with pain. And even though the pain isn't her own, it will corrupt her and the people around her all the same-unless she can stop it.

A story about breaking cycles of abuse and overcoming generational trauma, May the Dead Keep You is an edge-of-your-seat read-equally horrifying, heart-wrenching, and hopeful.

By: Jill Baguchinsky
Imprint: Little, Brown Young Readers
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 208mm, Width: 136mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9780316606820
ISBN 10: 0316606820
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 23 June 2026
Recommended Age: From 14 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , English as a second language
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Jill Baguchinsky is the award-winning author of So Witches We Became. She lives in Florida, and invites you to visit her online at jillbaguchinsky.com.