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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

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From V. E. Schwab, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue: a new genre-defying novel about immortality and hunger.
This is a story about hunger.
1532. Santo Domingo de la Calzada.
A young girl grows up wild and wily—her beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of escape. But María 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, María 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—but 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—
how it ends, and how it starts.
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    • Library Journal

      March 1, 2025

      Three women's stories tangle together across centuries and continents in this lesbian vampire tale from bestselling Schwab (The Fragile Threads of Power). With a 500K-copy first printing. Prepub Alert.

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    • Kirkus

      Starred review from April 15, 2025
      Three women deal very differently with vampirism in Schwab's era-spanning follow-up toThe Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (2020). In 16th-century Spain, Maria seduces a wealthy viscount in an attempt to seize whatever control she can over her own life. It turns out that being a wife--even a wealthy one--is just another cage, but then a mysterious widow offers Maria a surprising escape route. In the 19th century, Charlotte is sent from her home in the English countryside to live with an aunt in London when she's found trying to kiss her best friend. She's despondent at the idea of marrying a man, but another mysterious widow--who has a secret connection to Maria's widow from centuries earlier--appears and teaches Charlotte that she can be free to love whomever she chooses, if she's brave enough. In 2019, Alice's memories of growing up in Scotland with her mercurial older sister, Catty, pull her mind away from her first days at Harvard University. And though she doesn't meet any mysterious widows, Alice wakes up alone after a one-night stand unable to tolerate sunlight, sporting two new fangs, and desperate to drink blood. Horrified at her transformation, she searches Boston for her hookup, who was the last person she remembers seeing before she woke up as a vampire. Schwab delicately intertwines the three storylines, which are compelling individually even before the reader knows how they will connect. Maria, Charlotte, and Alice are queer women searching for love, recognition, and wholeness, growing fangs and defying mortality in a world that would deny them their very existence. Alice's flashbacks to Catty are particularly moving, and subtly play off themes of grief and loneliness laid out in the historical timelines. A beautiful meditation on queer identity against a supernatural backdrop.

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    • Booklist

      April 1, 2025
      This is an entrancing tale of three lesbian vampires spanning five centuries, including how their lives and deaths intersect and their different approaches to their vampiric afterlives. Maria, who died in 1532, craved more and found a Spanish viscount to marry, landing herself in a miserable marriage and desperately avoiding pregnancy. When her husband forbids her to associate with the local herbalist, Maria flees to the apothecary, accidentally slays her creator as she is turned into a vampire, then gleefully slaughters her husband and his family. A decade later, now known as Sabine, she meets other vampires willing to teach her. But when they become sloppy in their slaughter, Sabine barely escapes as the other two are killed. Her story alternates with that of modern-day Alice, who brought Lottie home from a college party and woke up as a vampire. When Alice tracks Lottie down, Lottie tells her her history, and how Sabine, almost a century after their parting, still stalks her and the women she feeds from. The vampires' intertwined stories explore the centuries between them, ultimately reaching an unexpected yet satisfying conclusion. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Schwab's fantasies are always a big draw, and this enticing tale of lesbian vampires that crosses centuries will be irresistible to her many readers.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from April 28, 2025
      Bestseller Schwab (The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue) unfolds an epic and emotionally resonant tale about three lesbian vampires connected through the centuries. In 16th-century Spain, wild Maria avoids pregnancy and eventually escapes her lonely marriage with the help of a mysterious herbalist widow, but poorly rewards the woman’s offer of the gift of eternal life by killing her and taking on her name, Sabine. After centuries of wandering, only rarely finding others of her own kind, Sabine hunts and then turns Charlotte in 19th-century London—but Charlotte flees when their loving connection sours under mercurial Sabine’s jealousy. In 21st-century Boston, Scottish Harvard student Alice seeks novelty and reminisces about her sister, but after a postparty hookup with Lottie leaves her as a vampire, she is determined to find Lottie again and get some answers. Schwab crafts intricate backstories for her leads, beautifully balancing the humanity and monstrosity of all three women while chronicling their transformations over time. The result is a haunting and worthwhile story about cruelty, grace, love, and what it means to live forever.

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