Spanning five centuries and three continents, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil braids together the lives of three women bound by hunger, love, and rage. In 1532, María — restless and copper-haired — is trapped in a suffocating marriage until an ageless widow named Sabine offers her a monstrous kind of freedom. In 1827, Charlotte is exiled to a London aunt after she is caught kissing another girl, where another mysterious widow teaches her she can be free to love as she chooses. And in present-day Boston, Alice wakes after a one-night stand unable to bear sunlight, with two new fangs and a thirst she cannot explain.
As their stories reach across time and slowly intertwine, V.E. Schwab spins a sweeping, sapphic vampire saga about immortality as both gift and curse — about the women who make us and the ones we become. It is a novel of appetite in every sense: for blood, for freedom, for love that refuses to be small.
Lush, furious, and elegiac, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil is Schwab's darkly romantic meditation on power, hunger, and the long shadow of the choices we make to survive.