The Bones Beneath My Skin

In the spring of 1995, grieving and newly unemployed journalist Nate Cartwright retreats to his family's isolated cabin in the Oregon mountains, hoping for solitude to put his life back together. Instead he finds the cabin already occupied — by a guarded, protective man named Alex and an extraordinary ten-year-old girl who calls herself Artemis Darth Vader.

When dangerous forces arrive intent on capturing the girl, Nate must choose between retreating further into his grief or standing with this unlikely new family to protect her. T.J. Klune's The Bones Beneath My Skin blends science fiction, found family, and a slow-building romance against the backdrop of a remote mountain refuge and a government conspiracy closing in on it.