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.
Författare: Veen, Johanna van
Förlag: Penguin Books Ltd.
Distributör: Förlagssystem bokimporten
Utgivningsdag: 2026-05-26
Språk: ENGELSKA
Format: Pocket
Antal sidor: 384
Antal tillgängliga böcker: 0 stycken
ISBN: 9781464275517
Kategori: Fantasy, Dark fantasy
