The Ossuary Bride

Every Samhain, Bellhollow gives the bone dragon a bride. None of them ever come home.

Nessa Morcant has spent her life digging graves and listening to what the dead leave behind in their bones.

Then a corpse whispers something impossible.

The dragon never ate me.

Six years ago, Nessa's older sister walked through the bride gate and vanished. The village says the bonewyrm devoured her. The Synod says the sacrifices keep Bellhollow safe.

The dead say otherwise.

When the choosing bell rings Nessa's name days before the ceremony, she knows someone planned for her to become the next bride. Instead of running, she walks willingly into the Hollow, determined to discover what happened to her sister.

Waiting beyond the gate is Sythrane, an ancient bone dragon slowly dying beneath a curse she cannot escape.

And Dorian Kest, the dragon's scarred, oath-bound rider who has spent eleven years carrying brides toward a fate he is forbidden to reveal.

Nessa was supposed to be another sacrifice.

Instead, the dragon chooses her.

Now Nessa and Dorian must uncover the truth buried beneath the Abbey before an ancient Gate opens beneath the valley. But every secret Nessa pulls from the bones costs her a piece of her own memory, and the closer she comes to freeing the dragon, the clearer one terrible truth becomes.

Bellhollow never needed a bride.

It needed a Witness.

The Ossuary Bride is a dark gothic dragon romantasy featuring a sacrificial-bride mystery, an ancient bonewyrm, forbidden magic, slow-burn romance, reluctant allies, buried conspiracies, and a complete emotional ending with a larger saga still to come.