Bone Crier's Moon

Ailesse belongs to the Bone Criers, the last descendants of an ancient famille. Using magic drawn from animal bones, they guide the dead into the afterlife, because spirits left behind drain the light from the living.

Ailesse has trained since birth to become the matriarch of her people. Before she can take that place, she must pass a rite of passage that requires her to kill the boy she is destined to love.

That boy is Bastien. His father was slain by a Bone Crier, and he has spent his time since then looking for revenge. Once Ailesse's ritual begins, his plans have to wait, because the two of them are bound together in life and in death.

This is fantasy with a macabre streak and a romance marked as doomed from the start. It is the first part of a duology. The stakes are personal: a ritual that demands a killing, a grudge that demands blood, and two people who are meant to be on opposite sides of both.