The Bone Witch
A brand new magical world for the no-spice, female-lead, urban fantasy fan.
Ghosts, curses, and the call for adventure await. 10 stories featuring Nariah Boyd — bone witch, spirit-speaker, and the last person vampires should have crossed. Previously only available as separate ebooks, the complete collection is coming to print and audio for the first time — exclusively through Kickstarter.
10 Stories. One World.
Every Format.
The Rise of the Bone Witch brings all ten Nariah Boyd stories together for the first time — available in hardback, paperback, ebook, and audiobook through Kickstarter.
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Nariah Boyd
sees what the world forgets.
“She doesn’t bind spirits to her service or twist them into her power. She listens. She helps. And when their work together is done, she lets them go.”
Nariah is an artist and a collector. She cleans and articulates animal skeletons, polishes skulls, turns delicate bones into jewelry and sculpture. It’s quiet, careful work — and it suits her.
The world she lives in isn’t so different from ours, except vampires have claimed it the way old mob bosses once claimed cities. Every neighborhood, every block, belongs to someone. Magic takes effort, focus, and something personal.
To the people around her, Nariah’s life seems morbid. She spends her days with the dead — and her nights with the even deader. But there’s nothing dark about what she does. Every spirit she speaks with, she handles with the reverence reserved for the sacred.
Ten Stories. One Witch.
Nariah’s a teenager with homework to finish when something ancient stirs across the city. She grabs her mace. Some things can’t wait.
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Spirits are rising and the night air crackles with intent. Nariah ties back her hair and steps into the dark, because someone has to.
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The ghost of Anesa’s ferret Taco is causing chaos in her shop — and only Nariah can figure out why. Between nomad vampires in the parking lot and Taco’s very strong opinions, it’s a Tuesday.
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Before vampires claimed the city, Nariah’s mother gave blood at Red Cross drives. This is the story of how everything changed.
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She delivers a finished commission and receives, unexpectedly, a name from a spirit: the Bone Witch. Titles from spirits are never casual.
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Nariah is aromantic, deeply skeptical of Valentine’s Day, and fighting for a parking spot outside the city’s best Italian restaurant. Funny how things happen.
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Nariah lives alone at the forest’s edge with her animal spirits and prefers it that way. When the outside world intrudes, isolation only goes so far.
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Nariah marches through the woods without her usual cheerfulness. Something out there needs her help — and isn’t happy about it.
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Blue suede stilettos. Beautiful. Completely useless for running — which is a problem when Nariah keeps ending up in situations that require running.
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Nariah crashes through the forest at night, breathless and pursued. Two spirits in one body is never good — and whatever’s chasing her is running out of time.
Read now →Meet Rena
Nariah’s constant companion is a spectral rat — visible only to those with the sight, glowing brilliant teal with her skeleton luminous through translucent fur. Rena rides on Nariah’s shoulder, points her nose toward trouble, and bruxes with anxiety when something is wrong.
In Nariah’s world, spirits are bound to their bones. Rena’s bones — the tiny hand bones of a pet rat — are armatured in fine silver wire and shaped into a pair of earrings Nariah made herself, each one gripping an uncut emerald. Rena goes wherever the earrings go, and the earrings are never off.
She is very small. She has very strong opinions. And she can sniff out trouble before it bites.
“Super short little snack of an introductory story that nevertheless drew me in. It’s a pretty great idea and the characters we met were well written.”
The Bone Witch
is coming to print.
All ten Nariah Boyd stories — previously only available as separate ebooks — collected for the first time in hardback, paperback, and audio. Backers receive their copies before the wide release to the public. The signed hardback edition is available here and nowhere else.
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