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The Bone Houses

by Emily Lloyd-Jones

In a village where the dead will not stay buried, a gravedigger and a mapmaker must end an old curse.

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About The Bone Houses

Aderyn “Ryn” supports her siblings as a gravedigger in Colbren, where reanimated corpses known as bone houses threaten the living. When apprentice mapmaker Ellis arrives and the dead grow more aggressive, the two journey into the mountains to confront the curse and the truths buried with it.

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  • death
  • death of parent
  • grief
  • animal death
  • violence
  • blood
  • gore
  • dead bodies
  • body horror
  • chronic pain
  • poverty
  • eviction

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