Royal City. Bk. 1: The Complete Collection

Decades after Tommy Pike’s tragic death, he returns as an apparition that haunts each member of his family. His older brother Patrick, a middle-aged novelist struggling to follow-up his early success, sees Tommy as the sullen teenager he was when he died. To his sister Tara, a realtor whose attempts to revive the failing economy of their hometown has pushed her marriage to a breaking point, Tommy appears as a little boy; a sharp contrast to the form he takes for self-destructive, guilt-ridden brother Richie, who sees him as a bedraggled drinking buddy. When Pike family patriarch Peter suffers a stroke and slips into a coma, the family is forced to reunite. Soon, relationships are strained, lost loves are rekindled, and secrets come to light that set the Pikes on a path to reckoning with the trauma that’s kept them all locked in emotional stasis since Tommy’s death. This volume collects the entire series, previously published as single Issues 1–14.