{"product_id":"bone-covenant-9798240926655","title":"Bone Covenant","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEngland, 1348. The Black Death has taken half the village. Then it takes Elsbeth.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElse-healer's daughter, herbwoman, the last person in Ashenmere still boiling water instead of praying-dies of plague and is thrown into a mass grave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree days later, she claws her way out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe buboes are gone. Her blood runs dark beneath her skin. And when she touches the dying, they heal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Church sends Brother Callum to investigate-a monk with bruised knees and a faith held together by discipline alone. He expects a fraud. He finds a woman covered in grave dirt, saving lives the Church has already given up on. He also finds something the Church cannot explain: an ancient stone beneath a ruined chapel, carved with symbols older than Latin, sealing away a force that has been waiting since before Rome, before language, before memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe plague is not just disease. It is the breath of something buried-something vast and patient and lonely-pressing against a seal that has held for centuries. Else's blood is either the lock or the key. And the Church would rather burn her than find out which.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the dead begin to rise and whisper in a language no one recognizes, Else and Callum must uncover the truth of a covenant written in bone and blood while fighting an institution that will destroy them both before it admits holiness exists outside its walls.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBone Covenant is a dark gothic fantasy romance set in the world of the Black Death-a story of forbidden love between a healer and a monk, a found family forged in plague and fire, and an ancient horror that isn't evil. Just forgotten. And forgetting is what woke it up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContent note: Plague-era death and illness, religious persecution, body horror, tasteful on-page intimacy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Darkling Collective\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798240926655\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.77d","brand":"Kate Seger","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53240072831157,"sku":"9798240926655","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9798240926655.jpg?v=1788975326","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/bone-covenant-9798240926655","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}