The Arrivals is the second novel for adults by internationally bestselling author Melissa Marr.  

Chloe walks into a bar and blows five years of sobriety. When she wakes, she finds herself in an unfamiliar world, The Wasteland. She discovers people from all times and places have also arrived there: Kitty and Jack, a brother and sister from the Wild West; Edgar, a prohibition bootlegger; Francis, a one-time hippie; Melody, a mentally unbalanced 1950s housewife; and Hector, a former carnival artist.  

None know why they arrived there—or if there is a way out of a world populated by monsters and filled with corruption.  

Just as she did in Graveminder, Marr has created a vivid fantasy world that will enthrall. Melissa Marr’s The Arrivals is a thoroughly original and wildly imagined tale about making choices in a life where death is unpredictable and often temporary.

So, I narrowly survived my first mission as a Soul Retriever in the first level of the Underground City.

After that harrowing trip, I’m really looking forward to some downtime, but as with most things involving the afterlife, nothing ever works out the way I want it to.My newest mission will see me traveling to the sewer aqueduct of the Underground City and later, the prison. Yay me!But, luckily for me, I’ve got the hunky yet antisocial bladesmith, Tallis Black, by my side. Let’s see how many words I can manage to get out of him this time!And not so luckily for me, I’ve also got my guardian angel, Bill along for the ride. And, yep, he’s still up to his old, foul-mouthed antics.Between learning how to wield my sword from the foul-tempered bladesmith, personal training with a hot-headed demon, traveling to the Underground City not one but

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times and discovering that the leader of the Underground City harbors a curious fascination with me, I’m ready to have a nervous breakdown.