Hello everyone! We are so excited to announce the tour schedule for May the Dead Keep You by Jill Baguchinsky.
April 20th
The Brave Bookshelf with Kim Bartosch – Review, Tik Tok
April 21st
Books1987 – Promotional Post
April 22nd
Ilovebooksandstuffblog – Review
April 23rd
Betwixt The Sheets – Promotional Post
April 24th
Twirling Book Princess – Promotional Post
April 25th
Confessions of a YA Reader – Promotional Post
April 26th
Boys’ Mom Reads! – Promotional Post
April 20th
kimbartosch – Review, Tik Tok
theink.slinger – Promotional Post
daniereads87 – Review
thorfinns_library – Review
meghenslittlelibrary – Creative Post
April 21st
readers_not_writers – Review
onemused – Promotional Post
bookish.by.trade – Journal Spread
April 22nd
ilovebooksandstuffblog – Review
thebookandtheboston – Promotional Post
redreviews4you – Mood Board
April 23rd
thecleverreader – Promotional Post
theverybookish – Promotional Post
ashton_reads – Mood Board
April 24th
nissa_the.bookworm – Promotional Post
rickys_radical_reads – Promotional Post
read_with_kc – Top 5 Reasons to Read May the Dead Keep You
April 25th
kmartbooks – Review
tarasbookaddiction – Promotional Post
toffiladyreader – Creative Post
April 26th
mrs.brasingtonreads – Review
mxphoebesviewpoint – Favorite Quotes
enthuse_reader – Review
dreaminginpages – Promotional Post
Genre: YA Horror
Publishing date: April 21, 2026
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Synopsis:
Perfect for fans of Don’t Let the Forest In and Wuthering Heights , May the Dead Keep You is a gothic YA horror about the pasts that haunt us and the stories we decide to make for ourselves.
There’s nowhere Catie East would rather be than the redwood forest that surrounds her family’s unusual historic home, the Heights.
She prefers being alone in the forest. People are…complicated. But when a scientist and his son move into the estate’s cottage, planning to study the woods around them, the boy catches Catie’s eye. And when a dead woodpecker miraculously comes back to life in his precious hands…he captures her heart.
Necromancy isn’t the only strange thing happening in the Heights. There’s an unfamiliar face in the mirror. Blood on the floors. Eyes in the wallpaper. And the men around her—including her once-sweet nature boy—are becoming something else. Something possessive and frightening. Something violent.
As the Heights’s dark history starts to come to light, Catie discovers that the home she loves is imbued with pain. And even though the pain isn’t her own, it will corrupt her and the people around her all the same—unless she can stop it.
A story about breaking cycles of abuse and overcoming generational trauma, May the Dead Keep You is an edge-of-your-seat listen—equally horrifying, heart-wrenching, and hopeful.
Content Warning: enerational trauma, animal deaths and resurrections, stalking and related behaviors, drug references, underage drinking, blood and gore, violence including mentions of domestic abuse, miscarriage, parental loss, abandonment, character death, character injuries/ characters in peril.
Jill Baguchinsky writes raw, accessible young adult fiction that resonates with teenagers navigating an increasingly dark and complicated world. Her most recent book, SO WITCHES WE BECAME (LBYR 2024), received a starred review from School Library Journal; the young adult horror novel tackles society’s toxic “boys will be boys” mentality with nuance and sensitivity, challenging women and girls to find strength in the shadows of their past trauma and fight back. MAY THE DEAD KEEP YOU (LBYR 2026), her next YA horror, turns some traditional romance tropes upside down to illustrate that themes like obsession, possessiveness, and stalking aren’t romantic at all. Jill’s debut novel, SPOOKYGIRL, won the 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award for Young Adult Fiction.
Although Jill works mainly in the young adult realm, she has also been recognized as a notable voice in adult horror; her stories have appeared in the women-in-horror anthologies INTO THE FOREST: TALES OF THE BABA YAGA and MOTHER KNOWS BEST: TALES OF HANDMADE HORROR (both Black Spot Books). Her work has been adapted for audio on the popular NoSleep Podcast, and her post-apocalyptic short story “Green Thumb” won Uncharted Magazine’s Sci-Fi/Fantasy Short Story Award. Although Jill’s work is often dark and sometimes grim, she weaves hope, strength, and subtle humor throughout her stories, offering readers a bit of light in the shadows.
Jill’s storytelling abilities adapt seamlessly to other genres as well. For her 2018 young adult contemporary novel, MAMMOTH (Turner Publishing), Jill worked with real-life scientists and trained at the Waco Mammoth National Monument to deliver a story of finding one’s confidence and voice as a young female intern in the male-dominated field of paleontology.
Born in New York and raised in Florida, Jill spends most of her time writing with the help of her menagerie of rescued office assistants (currently cats and guinea pigs), giddily cross-stitching rude or political sentiments, and chilling at Walt Disney World’s EPCOT theme park.
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