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  • Published: 14 April 2027
  • ISBN: 9798217120963
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $48.00

When Evil Lingers




From the author of the BookTok sensation A Broken Blade comes a high-stakes paranormal thriller about two Indigenous teens, born decades apart, who must solve a string of murders haunting their community, before the past and present collide in deadly ways.

Seventeen-year-old Wade isn’t sure she’ll ever be ready to lead her Anishinaabe community. Not the way her grandma or dad did. If the mere idea of speaking in front of a crowd makes her want to puke, how is she supposed to carry on her family’s legacy? 

Forced to grow up at residential school, Cheesh knows little about Nish life or culture by the time she’s seventeen. And after she’s cruelly murdered at the school, she realizes she knows even less about Anishinaabe death.

Then a doorway between their worlds opens, leaving Cheesh stuck in the land of the living, where only Wade can see her. Maybe guiding Cheesh to her ancestors in the afterworld is the way Wade honors her family’s name? 

But when Indigenous teens in their town start turning up dead, the girls discover that much more is at stake. Will they find the strength to stop all the bloodshed and find peace, or will evil win . . . again?

  • Published: 14 April 2027
  • ISBN: 9798217120963
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $48.00

About the author

Melissa Blair

Melissa Blair (she/her/kwe) is an Anishinaabe-kwe of mixed ancestry living in Turtle Island. She splits her time between Treaty 9 in Northern Ontario and the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinabeg in Ottawa, Canada. She has a graduate degree in Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies, loves movies, and hates spoons. Melissa is a Booktoker and author of the bestselling Halfling Saga. This is her debut novel for teens.