Ruby Falls #4

The concluding chapter of Ann Nocenti and Flavia Biondi's four-part Berger Books series arrives with a cover that's quietly haunting — a translucent, ghostly woman in a white dress and red beaded cross necklace looms in the foreground of a dark woodland, while a solitary figure stands on a wooden path behind her, a cart visible further in the distance. Biondi's cool teal palette and Lee Loughridge's atmospheric colors give the forest an eerie, dreamlike tension that suits a story clearly steeped in mystery and the uncanny. If you've been following Ruby Falls, this finale promises the kind of unsettling Southern Gothic atmosphere the series has delivered from the start.