Half World

Afterlife -- fiction
death -- fiction
Heroines

By Hiromi Goto; illustrations by Jillian Tamaki

When her mother is kidnapped, Melanie, the human daughter of parents from the Half World, a limbo between Earth and the afterlife, is forced to follow her missing mother to Half World, from which neither may return alive.

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