He sends his vampire friends to attack Ellie and her mom, orders a fake psychic to give a false account of what happened that night, and even tries to bribe Ellie to stop snooping around town. Allerton seems like the last man who would commit a murder, but as soon as he learns that Ellie and her family are investigating Trevor’s death, Allerton tries to get rid of them.

With the help of her best friend Jay, Ellie learns that Abe Allerton is a respected doctor and member of the community in Willowbee. Ellie wants to investigate the details of Trevor’s death and try to piece together the truth about what happened to her cousin. Ellie and her parents leave for South Texas to help arrange Trevor’s burial and to console his widow and infant son. That night, Trevor appears in a dream and tells Ellie that this wasn’t an accident and that he was killed by a man named Abe Allerton, who lives in a town called Willowbee.

One night, Ellie’s cousin Trevor is killed in a mysterious car accident, although the details of his death are confusing and inconsistent. She has brought back her loyal dog Kirby and several other animals, but she is careful to observe the most important rule of ghost-raising: never, ever, wake up human ghosts because they are highly destructive and evil. Ellie is able to “wake up,” or raise ghosts from the underworld. In this America, magic, monsters, and ghosts have shaped the country, and for the Lipan Apache people, ghost-training is a long-held family tradition. Seventeen-year-old Elatsoe, or Ellie, lives with her parents in an alternate version of America.

This guide references the ebook edition from the Arthur A.

Elatsoe is a novel about grief, family, love, letting go, justice, revenge, honoring tradition, and empowerment. Set in an alternative version of America full of monsters, magic, and interdimensional beings, Elatsoe follows the story of 17-year-old Ellie as she tries to uncover the truth about her cousin’s murder with the help of her best friend, her family, and her loyal ghost dog, Kirby.

Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger