Bone of My Bone

<p><b><i>USA Today</i> bestseller and Bram Stoker Award nominee Johanna van Veen unveils a sapphic folk horror tour de force—perfect for fans of <i>The VVitch</i> and <i>The Salt Grows Heavy</i>. A skull’s grin is eternal…</b><br><br><i>The year is 1635.</i><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><b>As beautiful and tender as it is dark and terrifying, <i>Bone of My Bone</i> showcases one of queer horror’s most exciting writers in her most chilling tale yet.<br><br>Tropes</b><br>Folk Horror Fantasy<br>Dark Fairytale<br>Sapphic Love<br>Historical Fiction<br>Supernatural Books<br>LGBTQ+<br><br><b>Also by Johanna van Veen:</b><br><i>My Darling Dreadful Thing<br>Blood on Her Tongue</i></p>