Veen, Johanna van - Bone of My Bone

Bone of My Bone

Author: Johanna van Veen

Genre: Fantasy, Adult, Horror, Historical Fiction

Pages: 345

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press

Release Date: May 26, 2026

Format: Paperback

Size (in cm): 19.7 (height) x 12.8 (width) x 2.4 (depth)

ISBN: 9781464275517

Synopsis:

Bram Stoker Award–nominee and USA Today bestseller 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…

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 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 the magic they seek comes at a cost.

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.

LGBT Themes:

• Sapphic

Relevant Tags:

Horror, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Queer, Sapphic, Lesbian, Historical, LGBT, Gothic, Adult, Fiction