Bone of My Bone (Deluxe Edition)

By Johanna van Veen

"A must-read for people who love stories as moving as they are horrific." -- Booklist, Starred Review

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 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 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.

"Decadently atmospheric and deeply unsettling, Bone of My Bone delivers a deliciously disturbing tale about survival and the choices we're forced to make along the way. Johanna van Veen's sublime prose and worldbuilding left me completely enthralled." -- Monika Kim, award-winning author of The Eyes are the Best Part

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1464239800
• ISBN13: 9781464239809
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.3"