The Bone Chapel

By Sophia Poe

Prague, 1622. Occupation. Resistance. Forbidden desire.

Six months after her father's execution, Kateřina Čern forges documents to help dispossessed Czech families reclaim what the Habsburgs stole. One mistake means the pyre.

Father Dominik Rainer is the perfect Jesuit administrator: efficient, obedient, and dead inside. In Seville, he watched the Inquisition burn a twelve-year-old girl alive. His faith shattered, but leaving the priesthood means execution. So he performs his role with flawless precision, cataloging theft and enabling oppression while slowly dying behind his collar.

When Dominik catches Kateřina breaking into Prague Castle's records room, he should report her. Instead, he corrects her forgery technique and lets her go.

Now they're both committing treason. Both holding each other's survival in their hands. Their partnership turns dangerous. Their attraction becomes impossible to resist. And in the bone chapel, surrounded by forty thousand skulls, they finally stop fighting and claim something real in the ruins of occupied Prague.

Then Cardinal Wolff begins to suspect. And suddenly they're not just risking their hearts. They're running for their lives.

A dark historical romance of rebellion, forbidden love, and the brutal cost of freedom. For readers who want their romance explicit, their history authentic, and their happy endings earned through blood and fire.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GH8DC3PD
• ISBN13: 9798243598699
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.0"