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Bone of My Bone

Johanna van Veen · Horror

54 Pulse Score

Based on recommendations from independent creators

forbidden romancegothic atmospherewitchesslow burn
folk horrordark romance
🌶️🌶️🌶️Moderate — some open-door scenes, not the focus

#88 All Time

About this book

A skull's grin is eternal... The year is 1635. 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. 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

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