A FREE PREQUEL & THE RELIQUARY DUET

Bone Covenant

Some inheritances are debts.

A healer’s inheritance. A covenant sealed in bone. Begin in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest, then follow the duet into the plague year of 1348.

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ASHENMERE, 1348

The women no one put in the record.

The Black Death has emptied Ashenmere of carts, pigs, and children. Else is left with her mother's cottage and a covenant sealed in bone, renewed in blood, and kept for generations by women history refused to name.

Read The Bone Woman here for free, then continue into Bone Covenant and Bone Sacrament. The duet is a Gothic tale of healing, forbidden love, and an ancient horror that may not be the evil everyone believes it to be.

Black Death
Forbidden love
Healer heroine
Ancient covenant

THE READING PATH

The books in order.

Begin with the complete prequel The Bone Woman, free to read here, then follow Else's story through the Reliquary Duet.

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The Bone Woman
Prequel · Read free here
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Bone Covenant
Book one
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Bone Sacrament
Book two · The duet continues

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BEFORE YOU READ

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The Bone Woman

Story elements: A healer heroine, an ancient blood bargain, and love across an enemy divide.
Who you’ll meet: Sæwynn is a village healer; Rainald is a soldier among the occupying men.
Where and when: Ashenmere, England, after the Norman Conquest, centuries before Bone Covenant.
What’s at stake: The risen dead threaten the village, and keeping them down demands a costly covenant.
Romance intimacy: One on-page intimate scene.

Content notes · may reveal sensitive story details

War and its aftermath, famine, religious persecution, child death, grief, and the risen dead.

Bone Covenant

Story elements: A healer heroine, forbidden love, and an inherited supernatural covenant.
Who you’ll meet: Else tends the sick in Ashenmere; Brother Callum is an Augustinian monk and meticulous manuscript copyist.
Where and when: England in 1348, during the Black Death.
What’s at stake: Else inherits the work and secrets of the bone women while plague threatens her community.

Content notes · may reveal sensitive story details

Epidemic illness, death and bereavement, burial, and religious pressure.

Bone Sacrament

Story elements: Forbidden love, inherited duty, and a journey to the source of an ancient bargain.
Who you’ll meet: Else and Callum continue the duet, alongside the women who keep its buried knowledge.
Where and when: England and Provence during the first Black Death catastrophe of 1348–49.
What’s at stake: As the covenant’s protection fails, Else must find its source before her community loses what holds the dead at bay.

Content notes · may reveal sensitive story details

Epidemic illness, death, grief, religious conflict, and supernatural danger.

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