When Death owes you a favor, being dead isn't necessarily a permanent condition.
Sam Constant's best friend wasn't supposed to die. Baron Samedi, the Vodou Lwa of Death, never dug her grave. Yet Val is dead, and now her soul is missing. But when Death owes you a favor, being dead isn't necessarily a permanent condition.
Somewhere beyond the Gates of Guinée, in a house no mortal soul has ever left, Kalfu, the dark Lwa of the Crossroads, waits to make a bargain. And his bargains always come at a cost.
Now time is running out. Soon no power in the living world or the dead will be able to bring Val home. With her cousin Maggie and a wisecracking, rum-soaked Death at her side, Sam must navigate the treacherous world of the lwa once more, and walk into a house that no one has ever walked out of, to carry her best friend back from beyond the grave.
The House at the Crossroads is the second book in the Baron & Me series, a darkly funny, deliciously eerie descent through the spirit world of Vodou, for readers who like their adventures with the soul of a gothic horror and the bite of Pratchett's Death.
