The seal holds. The bones do not.
Else bought the world time with her blood. But the skeleton beneath the stone — the first bone woman's willing sacrifice — is turning to dust. The covenant needs new bones. The Church has sent a new inquisitor. And the ancient thing, patient as stone, is learning to look through the living.
To find the original reliquary, they must travel to the caves where the covenant was born. To save the seal, Else must answer the question she has been refusing since she woke in the grave:
What are you willing to give?
Bone Sacrament is the conclusion of The Reliquary Duet — a dark gothic fantasy romance set during the Black Death, for readers who love forbidden love, found family, and the kind of faith that burns.
Tropes: forbidden romance, found family, protector heroine, religious trauma, morally complex villain, he fell first, quest narrative
Genre: Historical Romance
Else bought the world time with her blood. But the skeleton beneath the stone — the first bone woman's willing sacrifice — is turning to dust. The covenant needs new bones. The Church has sent a new inquisitor. And the ancient thing, patient as stone, is learning to look through the living.
To find the original reliquary, they must travel to the caves where the covenant was born. To save the seal, Else must answer the question she has been refusing since she woke in the grave:
What are you willing to give?
Bone Sacrament is the conclusion of The Reliquary Duet — a dark gothic fantasy romance set during the Black Death, for readers who love forbidden love, found family, and the kind of faith that burns.
Tropes: forbidden romance, found family, protector heroine, religious trauma, morally complex villain, he fell first, quest narrative
Genre: Historical Romance
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