Your Blood and Bones

By J. Patricia Anderson

Kill the monsters when they're found.

 

No matter who they used to be.

 

The girl with secret feathers in her skin and strange bones jutting out beneath her clothes is resigned to her fate. Her deformities mark her a monster and the stories say monsters must die.

 

When her family finds out and turns on her, a village boy saves her and leads her on a frantic escape. The girl believes her death has merely been delayed—until he mentions a cure.

 

With the world against them and the monstrous change progressing, they must cross water, forest, and field to chase the rumor that fuels their desperate hope. But is hope enough to keep them going?

• Language: English
• Publisher: J. Patricia Anderson
• Release date: Aug 27, 2023
• ISBN: 9781778288142

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