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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight SoilV.E. Schwab

Characters in Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

4 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

  • María (Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil)

    A peasant from Santo Domingo de la Calzada who marries a viscount in 1532 to gain control over her own life, and looks for an escape when the marriage confines her instead.

  • Charlotte (Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil)

    Sent from her home in rural England to an aunt in London in 1827 to find a husband, after her brother catches her kissing her friend Jocelyn.

  • Alice (Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil)

    An eighteen-year-old from Scotland studying at Harvard in 2019, who wakes after a one-night stand changed, and searches Boston for the stranger responsible.

Antagonists

  • Sabine (Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil)

    A centuries-old vampire who moves through society as a wealthy widow, and whose gift of immortality comes with a possessive hold over those she turns.