The Bone Houses

by Emily Lloyd-Jones · 2019

Seventeen‑year‑old Aderyn, called Ryn, has only two concerns: her surviving siblings and the graveyard they tend in the isolated village of Colbren. Since their parents’ death, the family ekes out a meager living as gravediggers at the foot of a forbidding mountain range once ruled by the fae. But in Colbren the dead do not stay buried—reanimated corpses known as “bone houses” rise from the earth, the product of an ancient curse that has haunted the valley for generations. When Ellis, a mysterious apprentice mapmaker, arrives, the bone houses grow more aggressive, threatening to overwhelm the village. Together Ryn and Ellis set out on a perilous journey into the heart of the mountains, confronting the source of the curse and the hidden truths about themselves. Blending classic horror with a dark fairy‑tale sensibility, Emily Lloyd‑Jones’s "The Bone Houses" delivers a spellbinding, atmospheric adventure that will keep readers turning pages from the very first line.