The Bone Drenched Woods

Carve the bones.

One for the gate,

one for the door,

two for the mantel,

and three for the floor…

Hyacinth Turning knows the terrors beyond her village, the insatiable hunger of the Teeth. She listens to the sermons given by the Elders in their hare-skin masks. She watches as the heathens hang and the witches burn. They tell her to be good and quiet. But Hyacinth is neither good nor quiet.

After a series of tragic events, Hyacinth finds herself hastily wedded and sent far away from all she has e...