Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

#1 New York Times bestseller #1 USA Today bestseller #1 National Indie bestseller #1 IndieNext List, June 2025 2025 Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best FantasyA genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger from V. E. Schwab, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue. Now in trade paperback with a new short story!This is a story about hunger.1532. Santo Domingo de la Calzada.A young girl grows up wild and wily¡ªher beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of escape. But Mar¨ªa 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, Mar¨ªa 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 family¡¯s estate, until a moment of forbidden intimacy sees her shipped off to London. Charlotte¡¯s tender heart and seemingly impossible wishes are swept away by an invitation from a beautiful widow¡ªbut the price of freedom is higher than she could have imagined.This is a story about rage.2019. Boston.College was supposed to be her chance to be someone new. That¡¯s why Alice moved halfway across the world, leaving her old life behind. But after an out-of-character one-night stand leaves her questioning her past, her present, and her future, Alice throws herself into the hunt for answers . . . and revenge.This is a story about life¡ªhow it ends, and how it starts.”Schwab has impressively woven a compelling character drama and feminist critique into a horror thriller…sumptuous descriptions of place and time, and the slow-burn melodrama between each of the women… a tale told sharply but sweetly enough it goes down as easy as that happy-hour cocktail that, surprisingly, knocks you flat.” ¡ªThe New York Times¡°Schwab sends you whirling through a dizzying kaleidoscopic adventure through centuries filled with love, loss, art and war¡ªall the while dazzling your senses with hundreds of tiny magical moments along the way.¡± ¡ªNaomi Novik