Bone of My Bone

USA Today bestseller and Bram Stoker Award nominee Johanna van Veen unveils a sapphic folk horror tour de force-perfect for fans of The VVitch and The Salt Grows Heavy. A skull's grin is eternal...<BR><BR>The year is 1635.<BR><BR>Sister Ursula, a young nun fleeing the ruins of her convent, and Elsebeth, a sharp-witted peasant, escape a band of marauding soldiers and disappear into the Bavarian forest. War scorches the land, and no one survives it alone. Amid the devastation, they find something in the arms of a dying man: the gilded skull of a saint.<BR><BR>It is said that if you reunite the saint's skull with her body, a wish will be granted. Desperate for salvation, and each with secret desires of their own, Ursula and Elsebeth follow a ragged map across the blighted countryside. But darkness follows them. A necromancer, drawn to the relic's power. The saint herself, whispering at night. And as the lines between blessing and curse blur, the women must face a harrowing truth: the magic they seek comes at a cost.<BR><BR>At the journey's end, they'll face an impossible choice-one that could tear apart everything they know...or bind them to each other forever.<BR><BR>As beautiful and tender as it is dark and terrifying, Bone of My Bone showcases one of queer horror's most exciting writers in her most chilling tale yet.<BR><BR>Tropes<BR>Folk Horror Fantasy<BR>Dark Fairytale<BR>Sapphic Love<BR>Historical Fiction<BR>Supernatural Books<BR>LGBTQ+<BR><BR>Also by Johanna van Veen:<BR>My Darling Dreadful Thing<BR>Blood on Her Tongue