Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

<p><b>#1 <i>New York Times</i> bestseller * #1 <i>USA Today</i> bestseller * #1 National Indie bestseller * #1 IndieNext List, June 2025 * 2025 Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Fantasy</b><br><br><i><b>A genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger from V. E. Schwab, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. Now in trade paperback with a new short story!</b></i><br><br><i><b>This is a story about hunger.</b></i><br>1532. Santo Domingo de la Calzada.<br>A young girl grows up wild and wily-her beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of escape. But Maria knows she can only ever be a prize, or a pawn, in the games played by men. When an alluring stranger offers an alternate path, Maria makes a desperate choice. She vows to have no regrets.<br><br><i><b>This is a story about love.</b></i><br>1827. London.<br>A young woman lives an idyllic but cloistered life on her family's estate, until a moment of forbidden intimacy sees her shipped off to London. Charlotte's tender heart and seemingly impossible wishes are swept away by an invitation from a beautiful widow-but the price of freedom is higher than she could have imagined.<br><br><i><b>This is a story about rage.</b></i><br>2019. Boston.<br>College was supposed to be her chance to be someone new. That's why Alice moved halfway across the world, leaving her old life behind. But after an out-of-character one-night stand leaves her questioning her past, her present, and her future, Alice throws herself into the hunt for answers . . . and revenge.<br><br><i><b>This is a story about life-how it ends, and how it starts.</b></i><br><br>"Schwab has impressively woven a compelling character drama and feminist critique into a horror thriller...sumptuous descriptions of place and time, and the slow-burn melodrama between each of the women... a tale told sharply but sweetly enough it goes down as easy as that happy-hour cocktail that, surprisingly, knocks you flat." -<i>The</i> <i>New York Times</i><br><br>"Schwab sends you whirling through a dizzying kaleidoscopic adventure through centuries filled with love, loss, art and war-all the while dazzling your senses with hundreds of tiny magical moments along the way." -Naomi Novik</p>