Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. SchwabThis is a story about hunger. 1532. Santo Domingo de la Calzada. A young girl grows up wild and wilyher beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of escape. But Mara 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, Mara makes a desperate choice. She vows to have no regrets. This is a story about love. 1827. London. A young woman lives an idyllic but cloistered life on her

★ Tropes include: secret society

But surprises aren’t always good

while in England Cromwell threatens to send Charles I to the scaffold

strung up in chains and left for dead

I can kiss my vacation goodbye

A woman returning to her small-town roots

A clandestine moment with a handsome stranger

But as their relationship grows more heated and she learns more about the world he moves in

And while Arsinoe

he’s going to need to prove it

a dark magical hold Knnot Mountain unleashed over her village

Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Buenos Aires