Mary Hades: Volume 1

Sarah Dalton

May 2014 · Sarah Dalton

About this ebook

Not many seventeen year old girls have a best friend who’s a ghost, but then Mary Hades isn’t your average teenager. 

Scarred physically and mentally from a fire, her parents decide a holiday to an idyllic village in North Yorkshire will help her recover. Nestled in the middle of five moors, Mary expects to have a boring week stuck in a caravan with her parents. Little does she know, evil lurks in the campsite… 

Seth Lockwood—a local fairground worker with a dark secret—might be the key to uncovering the murky history that has blighted Nettleby. But Mary is drawn to him in a way that has her questioning her judgement. 

Helped by her dead best friend and a quirky gay Goth couple, Mary must stop the unusual deaths occurring in Nettleby. But can she prevent her heart from being broken?

The first in a series of dark YA novels, Mary Hades follows on from the bestselling novella 'My Daylight Monsters'. A spine-tingling tale with romance, readers will be shocked and entertained in equal measure.

With some scenes of horror and strong language, this book is more suited to readers over the age of fifteen.

By Sarah Dalton: 

The Blemished series - YA dystopia

The Mary Hades series - YA horror

Keywords: teen, fiction, novel, series, book two, horror, young adult, creepy, ghost, powers, supernatural, paranormal, fantasy, romance, holiday romance, creepy, mystery, suspense, contemporary, spine tingling.

Ratings and reviews

Second book about this plucky young lady who sees ghosts and learns to help them, even when they are murderous with revenge! I enjoyed it very much and want to read more that this author has written.

About the author

Sarah grew up in the middle of nowhere in the countryside of Derbyshire and as a result has an over-active imagination.

She has been an avid reader for most of her life, taking inspiration from the stories she read as a child, and the novels she devoured as an adult.

Sarah mainly writes speculative fiction for a Young Adult audience and has had pieces of short fiction published in the Medulla Literary Review, PANK magazine and the British Fantasy Society publication Dark Horizons. Her short story ‘Vampires Wear Chanel’ is featured in the Wyvern Publication Fangtales.

In addition to the Blemished series, Sarah has penned the Gothic Mary Hades series about a teenage girl who can see ghosts.