The Empty Grave (Lockwood & Co., #5)

by Jonathan Stroud

That was where he always was—at the forefront of the group, standing between us and the darkness.

They did so because Lockwood asked them to, and that was enough.

We lose them twice over, Lucy. Death’s not the worst of it. We turn our faces away.”

He’d been walking toward that empty grave.

Monstrous, yes—but not a monster. At the heart of it, surely, was a man.