They see Cas as extra competition and therefore dislike him. Three local boys, Mike, Will, and Chase all have crushes on Carmel and want to impress her. Cas isn’t disturbed by any of this-he’s used to ghosts, after all.Ĭarmel isn’t the only local interested in Anna. People who’ve seen her say she wears a white dress, the one she died in, and it’s covered in blood. Apparently, Anna was murdered many years ago, and she’s always looking for humans to take her wrath out on. One night, Carmel invites Cas to a party, and she tells him all about Anna. The most popular girl in school, Carmel, says that Anna’s something of a local legend, and she agrees to tell Cas all she knows. Otherwise, he won’t know what he’s getting into or how difficult she’ll be to kill. When Cas starts his new school, he looks for someone who can help him find Anna and understand what’s so dangerous about her. He convinces his mother to move to Ontario, where he’ll need to enrol in a new school. Cas doesn’t know much about Anna, but he knows he needs to take her on. She’s called Anna Korlov-or, colloquially, “Anna Dressed in Blood”. One day, Cas gets a tip about a particularly dangerous ghost causing trouble in Thunder Bay, Ontario. All Cas knows is that a vicious ghost killed his father, and he won’t stop ghost hunting until he finds the spirit responsible.

Most spirits Cas kills are expected to end up in Hell. By stabbing a ghost with the athame, Cas can bury the spirit forever. Cas’s weapon of choice is a blade called an athame. His mother is an herbal witch who helps keep Cas out of too much trouble, and she travels around the country with him. But Cas has a secret-like his father and his ancestors before him, he hunts and kills unruly ghosts who are causing trouble in communities. To most people, he looks like any other teenage boy. The main character of Anna Dressed in Blood is a seventeen-year-old boy called Theseus Cassio Lowood, or “Cas”. Her latest series, Three Dark Crowns, is a bestseller.

Blake is a popular writer for teenagers, and writes in a variety of genres from paranormal to contemporary. It was first published in 2011 by Tor Teen and was nominated for numerous fantasy and young adult awards, including the 2012 Endeavour Award and the 2015 Lincoln Award.

It’s the first book in the Anna duology and tells the story of a ghost hunter who must kill a very powerful ghost before she destroys the whole community. Anna Dressed in Blood is a young adult paranormal novel by Kendare Blake.

Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake