Every year, the town of Darkly gathers at Cornelia ‘Conny’ Verity's plantation house, Fleur-de-Lis, to celebrate All Hallows' Eve in grand style. Windsor Ebonwood can’t wait to attend with her best friends, Tzazi Strangeland and Jessamin Wilde, especially since Jess has booked them a phantom horse and carriage for a pre-party ride through the haunted forests surrounding the old mansion. The Darkly woodlands are always teeming with supernatural creatures, however on this night of all nights, much more than the usual ghosts, ghouls, and loup-garou are prowling about, thrilled to be in the world of the living until dawn breaks.

When the living corpse of Conny’s daughter Zeela, who died a year ago this very night, crashes the party, the festive occasion quickly becomes one of terror, and even Win’s boyfriend, alpha wolfshifter Keir Bane, can’t protect her from the evil that has invaded the celebration. Win teams up with Azalea Strangeland, a powerful voodoo shadow-woman, to send Zeela back to her grave before the zombie is doomed to an eternity as an undead being. But someone is working to thwart the completion of the ritual. And when a second body is discovered, whose death appears to have been the result of a zombie attack, Win and friends double down to find the killer and return Zeela to the grave.

If you enjoy paranormal cozy mysteries full of tricks and treats and things that go bump in the night, don’t miss Corpse Bride & Haunted Ride, Book Three in A Darkly Southern Mystery series.