Description
Bram Stoker Award-nominee and USA Today bestseller Johanna van Veen unveils a sapphic folk-horror tour de force--perfect for fans of The VVitch and The Salt Grows Heavy. A skull's grin is eternal...
The year is 1635.
Sister Ursula, a young nun fleeing the ruins of her convent, and Elsebeth, a sharp-witted peasant, escape a band of marauding soldiers and disappear into the Bavarian forest. War scorches the land, and no one survives it alone. Amid the devastation, they find something in the arms of a dying man: the gilded skull of a saint.
It is said that if you reunite the saint's skull with her body, a wish will be granted. Desperate for salvation, and each with secret desires of their own, Ursula and Elsebeth follow a ragged map across the blighted countryside. But darkness follows them. A necromancer, drawn to the relic's power. The saint herself, whispering at night. And as the lines between blessing and curse blur, the women must face a harrowing truth: the magic they seek comes at a cost.
At the journey's end, they'll face an impossible choice--one that could tear apart everything they know... or bind them to each other forever.
Author: Johanna Van Veen
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Published: 05/26/2026
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.86d
ISBN13: 9781464293054
ISBN10: 1464293058
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Horror | Occult & Supernatural
- Fiction | Fantasy | Dark Fantasy
- Fiction | LGBTQ+ | General