The Girl in the Green Silk Gown

Its place in Ghost Roads

The Girl in the Green Silk Gown is book 2 in the Ghost Roads series. It follows Sparrow Hill Road. It is followed by Angel of the Overpass. 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…