Bone Rites by N.J. Bayley
The story of a women driven by a soul-destroying guilt.
1925:
Awaiting execution for murder, Kathryn tells her prison chaplain about bone magic.
Having watched her little brother lose a finger in a mangle, she saves that tiny bone, certain that she'll save him from further harm. But she loses the bone and he dies in the trenches of the First World War. Heartbroken, she travels to the front to nurse wounded soldiers. Faced with an unstoppable sea of death, she starts saving their bones, but when the war is over, she finds she can't stop. She must complete her collection- by any means.
1925:
Awaiting execution for murder, Kathryn tells her prison chaplain about bone magic.
Having watched her little brother lose a finger in a mangle, she saves that tiny bone, certain that she'll save him from further harm. But she loses the bone and he dies in the trenches of the First World War. Heartbroken, she travels to the front to nurse wounded soldiers. Faced with an unstoppable sea of death, she starts saving their bones, but when the war is over, she finds she can't stop. She must complete her collection- by any means.
