The Bone Brides - by Marley Rose-Teter (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

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Nola James can handle it. She can handle that her father is dead. She can handle that her friends, bored with her grief, left her behind. Nola James can handle it because she has to. Lumi--the love of her life and a faery changeling--is in danger. Not only is Lumi's human mother trying to kill her, but she's being hunted by veiled monsters that want to return her to the fae. Hiding out together in an abandoned cabin with only a skeleton rabbit for company is miserable, but Nola can handle that too. And she does.

Until Lumi is abducted.

In order to save her, Nola must enter the faery realm: a world at the bottom of a lake in which eyeless horses parade as brides, ghost-bees produce transformative honey, and skeletons dance in skin-colored cloaks. Aided by a witch-girl with uncertain motives, Nola uncovers the realm's terrifying power over changelings. Unless Nola can outplay an abyssal faery queen and find the courage to let the world see her own pain, Lumi will be trapped in faeryland forever.

Review Quotes

"Readers who love eerie fantasy, lush imagery, and queer romance will enjoy this book." --School Library Journal

"[A] fascinating exploration of grief [...] equal parts gritty adventure and sweeping love story."
--Publishers Weekly

"A marvelous, metaphorical masquerade."
--Kirkus Reviews

About the Author

Marley Rose-Teter lives in the Santa Cruz mountains with her partner, child, any number of house-rabbit friends, and a garage full of Halloween decorations. When not writing, she can be found directing local theatre or speaking at anime conventions. She goes at everything she does with her whole heart and strives always to be a bride married to amazement. The Bone Brides is her debut novel.