An instant No. 1 Sunday Times & New York Times Bestseller, Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil is a twisting tale of power, immortality and the terrifying price of freedom from V. E. Schwab.

Three women share one desire: to break the rules men use to bind them.

1532. Le n, Spain: Mar a, wild and wily, knows beauty is her only currency. So when an alluring stranger offers her a dark alternative path, Mar a makes a desperate choice.

1827. London: Charlotte lives a cloistered life, her heart full of impossible wants. Swept away by a beautiful widow's invitation, Charlotte discovers she can buy her freedom if she sells her soul.

2019. Boston: Alice moved across the world to escape her past. But a one-night stand gives her a thirst for answers . . . and retribution.

Defying time and all odds, these women s fates become tangled like roots. This is a story about life: how it ends, and how it starts again.

'A rich, lush labyrinth of a book . . . It had me by the throat from the first page' Emma Stonex

'Nobody can write like V. E. Schwab' Jodi Picoult

'I absolutely devoured it . . . It's utterly absorbing, atmospheric and perfectly gothic' Bridget Collins

'Schwab has impressively woven a compelling character drama and feminist critique into a horror thriller . . . goes down as easy as that happy-hour cocktail' The New York Times

Spanning centuries, this entrancing queer love story follows three women . . . Lyrical and immersive Cosmopolitan