num_pages: 329
description: 17-year-old Verity Boone expects a warm homecoming when she returns to Catawissa Pennsylvania in 1867 pledged to marry a man she has never met. Instead she finds a father she barely knows and a future husband with whom she apparently has nothing in common. One truly horrifying surprise awaits her: the graves of her mother and aunt are enclosed in iron cages outside the local cemetery. Nobody in town will explain why but Verity hears rumors of buried treasure and witchcraft. Perhaps the cages were built to keep grave robbers out . . . or to keep the women in. Determined to understand Verity finds herself in a life-and-death struggle with people she trusted.Inspired by a pair of real caged graves in present-day Catawissa this historical YA novel weaves mystery romance and action into a suspenseful drama with human greed and passion at its core.
language: English
title: The Caged Graves
publisher: Clarion Books