# Wake the Bones - Hardcover

by **Elizabeth Kilcoyne** (Author)

**"YA horror has found a new standard-bearer." - _Kirkus Reviews_ (starred review)**  
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"Dark, gripping, and gorgeous, _Wake the Bones_ will lead you into the woods and keep you up late. As lush and sweltering as a Kentucky summer... Elizabeth Kilcoyne is a force." - Gwenda Bond, _New York Times_ bestselling author**

The sleepy little farm that Laurel Early grew up on has _awakened_. The woods are shifting, the soil is dead under her hands, and her bone pile just stood up and walked away.

After dropping out of college, all she wanted was to resume her life as a tobacco hand and taxidermist and try not to think about the boy she can't help but love. Instead, a devil from her past has returned to court her, as he did her late mother years earlier. Now, Laurel must unravel her mother's terrifying legacy and tap into her own innate magic before her future and the fate of everyone she loves is doomed.

Elizabeth Kilcoyne's _Wake the Bones_ is a dark, atmospheric debut about the complicated feelings that arise when the place you call home becomes hostile.

**"Seething with shadows, summer, and uniquely southern magic, _Wake the Bones_ is a powerful debut that captures the ache of home being a place you simultaneously love and loathe." - Hannah Whitten, _New York Times_ bestselling author of _For the Wolf_**

### Author Biography

ELIZABETH KILCOYNE is an author, poet, and playwright from Lexington, Kentucky, who began this story after stacking rocks in her family cemetery one day when she realized she was standing on her own grave. She has been published in several literary journals including _Still:_ _The Journal_. _Wake the Bones_ is her first novel.

**Number of Pages:** 320

**Dimensions:** 1.13 x 8.41 x 5.66 IN

**Publication Date:** July 12, 2022

**Award:** William C. Morris YA Debut Award (2023)

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