Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

In sixteenth-century Spain, María longs for a life beyond the limits imposed on her. In nineteenth-century England, Charlotte is sent to London after an intimacy that her family will not accept. In contemporary Boston, Alice hopes university will offer a fresh start, until a night with a stranger leaves her with frightening questions. Across these distant settings, three women encounter possibilities that promise escape while demanding an extraordinary price. Their stories become bound together by vampirism, desire and the consequences of survival. Moving across centuries, the novel examines what happens when freedom becomes hunger, love becomes possession, and a longer life offers no easy release from the past.