Description:
A gripping, paranormal thriller about a teenage boy who accidentally brings a well-meaning but volatile poltergeist into his home.
Maximiliano Rafael Guerrero Lopez "Max" has been dead for 30 years. He's stuck as a sixteen-year-old in his childhood bedroom with no memory of how he died, and no company aside from rotting floor boards and mildew-ridden guitars. Joaquín Felix Ladrón "Joaquín" is a high schooler who's desperate to experience something paranormal--he'd do anything to even catch a glimpse of a ghost, even if it means sacrificing his relationship with his boyfriend. When Joaquín goes on a ghost hunt at an abandoned house that's rumored to be haunted, he and Max find their fates becoming intertwined in ways neither of them expected. But, as Max's powers begin to grow stronger, it becomes clear that their tentative friendship may just prove to be fatal...Brief description: Louangie Bou-Montes was born in Northampton, Massachusetts and grew up flitting back and forth between rural Western Mass and el campo in Guayama, PR, surrounded by countless cousins in both locations. Thanks to those cousins, she was raised on a healthy diet of everything from The Addams Family to Silent Hill to Pet Sematary, resulting in a love of telling stories about Puerto Rican kids with morbid hobbies and senses of humor.
Review Quotes:
"A pulse-pounding paranormal thriller that will have you tearing through the pages with excitement-and
keeping a close eye on your electronics for supernatural interference. A ghastly good time." --Andrew
Joseph White, NYTimes bestselling and award-winning author of Compound Fracture
"Take it to Your Grave is a must read, equal parts beautiful and chilling. It's everything I want in a book
and more, starring loveable characters, heartbreaking stakes, yearning, and ghosts that are actually
terrifying. A profound story about the love of a sibling and how powerful it is to finally feel seen. Bou-
Montes is a master at her craft and an auto-buy for me. I've never devoured a book so fast." --Jamison
Shea, author of I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me
from being spooked, then because I couldn't put it down! No matter how haunting, Take it to Your
Grave never once lost its heart." --Sonido Reyes, award-winning and bestselling author of The Lesbiana's
Guide to Catholic School "Take it to Your Grave is a fun, fast-paced ghost story with big stakes and an even bigger heart. The
characters are lovable, brave, and a little bit reckless as they dive into paranormal mysteries, and even
the book's darkest, most dangerous moments are grounded in the deep power of our care for one
another." --Erica Waters, author of The River Has Teeth and All That Consumes Us "Genuine suspense, surprising revelations, and moments of real danger culminate in a gripping contemporary haunting." --Publishers Weekly