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Wake the Bones

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Wake the Bones

By: Elizabeth Kilcoyne
Narrated by: Bailey Carr
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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 Wake the Bones is a dark, atmospheric debut about the complicated feelings that arise when the place you call home becomes hostile.

A Macmillan Audio production from Wednesday Books.

©2022 Elizabeth Kilcoyne (P)2022 Macmillan Audio
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Critic reviews

"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

"Seething with shadows, summer, and uniquely southern magic, Wake the Bones is a powerful debut that captures the ache of home being a place you simultaneously love and loathe." — Hannah Whitten, New York Times bestselling author of For the Wolf

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