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The Bone Covenant
Paperback
Series: The Covenant Trilogy, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 4 2026
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The dead answer her.
But an empire of light intends to silence them.
For sixteen years, Queen Marrowyn Thane has ruled the Quiet Throne through an ancient covenant: the dead speak only by consent, and their testimony preserves the truth of the past. In a world shaped by memory and doctrine, her kingdom stands because the dead are sovereign.
The Luminous Theocracy calls it heresy.
When an assassin breaches the palace with a blade designed not to kill her-but to sever her magic from within-Marrowyn realizes the accusation is only the beginning. The empire does not want to conquer her. It wants to unmake her slowly, publicly, and in the name of righteousness.
There is only one strategy capable of reaching inside the theocracy's sanctified heart: a defection.
Elara Vale-Marrowyn's wife-will cross the border as a woman who has lost faith. She will publicly denounce their marriage. She will carry real grievances sharp enough to convince an empire she has finally turned against the throne.
Some of what she says will be strategy.
Some of it will not.
As political tensions escalate and Marrowyn's communion with the dead begins to falter, both women must confront what remains when love is weaponized, belief is engineered, and truth becomes the most dangerous force in the room.
The Bone Covenant is a character-driven political fantasy about sovereignty, memory, and the cost of using devotion as strategy-perfect for readers of The Traitor Baru Cormorant, A Memory Called Empire, and other thoughtful, morally complex fantasy.*
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