"YA horror has found a new standard-bearer." -
Kirkus Reviews
(starred review)
“Dark, gripping, and gorgeous,
Wake the Bones
will lead you into the woods and keep you up late. As lush and sweltering as a Kentucky summer... Elizabeth Kilcoyne is a force.” - Gwenda Bond,
New York Times
bestselling author
The sleepy little farm that Laurel Early grew up on has
awakened
. The woods are shifting, the soil is dead under her hands, and her bone pile just stood up and walked away.
After dropping out of college, all she wanted was to resume her life as a tobacco hand and taxidermist and try not to think about the boy she can’t help but love. Instead, a devil from her past has returned to court her, as he did her late mother years earlier. Now, Laurel must unravel her mother’s terrifying legacy and tap into her own innate magic before her future and the fate of everyone she loves is doomed.
Elizabeth Kilcoyne’s
is a dark, atmospheric debut about the complicated feelings that arise when the place you call home becomes hostile.
"Seething with shadows, summer, and uniquely southern magic,
is a powerful debut that captures the ache of home being a place you simultaneously love and loathe." - Hannah Whitten,
bestselling author of
For the Wolf