Poe: Haunted Souls

by Rachel M. Martens

Poe is tired of losing people, tired of funerals and failure. In the six weeks since she buried her foster mother, she has worked relentlessly to transform herself into a different kind of dangerous, someone strong enough to fight for her loved ones and win instead of someone made up of broken pieces and sharp edges. It’s exhausting sometimes relearning how to believe in yourself and in other people, relearning how to be human, but Poe is determined.

Responding to an ominous series of letters from her estranged grandparents, the wealthy Blackwings who snubbed her family’s funeral so many years ago, is not on Poe’s priority list, but with so little family left she can’t ignore her grandparents’ plea for one last chance to meet their granddaughter and make amends before they die, not even when it means traveling far from Baltimore to Savannah, Georgia, the most haunted city in America.

In Savannah, the dead walk, and even an old enemy whose memory Poe has tried so hard to bury comes back to haunt her. Arming herself with supernatural talismans and a newfound iron will, Poe ventures into the Otherworld to fight her demons where they are most powerful...but can she prevail? Or will she be doomed to an afterlife as yet another specter haunting Savannah’s cobblestone streets?

276 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 13, 2024

About the author

Rachel M. Martens is the writer of the "Poe" gothic thriller series, as well as the short horror collection "Midnight Hour"(2017), the YA paranormal romantic thriller "Metalhead"(2019), and the political thriller "Patriots' Dance"(2024). Martens resides in Wisconsin and travels extensively, taking inspiration from the locales she has visited and the books she has read along the way. Her favorite time to write is in the midnight hours with a storm as background music and a mug of tea close at hand.