Sparrow Hill Road
- Published
- 1 January 2014
- Pages
- 312
- ISBN-13
- 9780756409616
- Type
- novel
About this book
Sparrow Hill Road opens Seanan McGuire's Ghost Roads trilogy in 2014 at 312 pages, introducing Rose Marshall, a hitchhiking ghost killed on prom night in 1952 who now guides the lost and dying along America's ghost roads.
Key facts about Sparrow Hill Road
Seanan McGuire wrote Sparrow Hill Road, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2014. The book has 312 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780756409616 to find the main one.
Sparrow Hill Road is book 1 of 3 in the Ghost Roads series. The series has 3 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
Additionally, Seanan McGuire writes October Daye, InCryptid and Wayward Children, plus 1 more series. Those series sit on our urban fantasy, portal fantasy and dark fantasy shelves. Meanwhile, Inkpot Gods is the latest published Seanan McGuire book on file, from 9 June 2026. The next announced Seanan McGuire release is due on 12 January 2027, so there is still more to come.
About Seanan McGuire
Seanan McGuire is a prolific American author of urban fantasy and speculative fiction, best known for the long-running October Daye series, which follows a half-fae, half-human private investigator navigating the hidden Faerie courts of San Francisco. See every Seanan McGuire book in order.
Its place in Ghost Roads
Sparrow Hill Road is book 1 in the Ghost Roads series. It is followed by The Girl in the Green Silk Gown. See the full Ghost Roads reading order.
Rose Marshall died on Sparrow Hill Road in 1952 -- run off the road on prom night by a man in a black car -- and never left. Sparrow Hill Road introduces her as a hitchhiking ghost, one of American folklore's classic phantom hitchhikers, who has spent decades since her death as a psychopomp of the ghost roads: guiding the lost and dying safely home, warring with the routewitches and hitchers who share her stretch of highway, and hunting for the man who killed her. Seanan McGuire builds an original American road…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780756409616