The Bone Orchard

Mueller, Sara A.

ISBN 10: 1250776945 / ISBN 13: 9781250776945

Published by Tor Books, 2022

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Signed. 2022 TOR. First printing. Signed by Sara A. Mueller on the title page, signature only. Clearly new and unread. Dust jacket protected in an archival Brodart cover. A perfect gift quality collectible. Ships promptly in a box with bubble wrap. Priority shipping available.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Bone Orchard
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1250776945
• ISBN 13: 9781250776945
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
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  • Fantasy

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Synopsis

Sara A. Mueller's The Bone Orchard is a fascinating whodunit set in a lush, gothic world of secrets and magic―where a dying emperor charges his favorite concubine with solving his own murder, and preventing the culprit, which undoubtedly is one of his three terrible sons, from taking control of an empire.

"Mueller creates an intricate and richly characterized world in her gothic fantasy debut." ― Buzzfeed
"A masterfully woven plot with refreshing narrators."―Publishers Weekly

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Charm is a witch, and she is alone. The last of a line of conquered necromantic workers, now confined within the yard of regrown bone trees at Orchard House, and the secrets of their marrow.

Charm is a prisoner, and a survivor. Charm tends the trees and their clattering fruit for the sake of her children, painstakingly grown and regrown with its fruit: Shame, Justice, Desire, Pride, and Pain.

Charm is a whore, and a madam. The wealthy and powerful of Borenguard come to her house to buy time with the girls who aren't real.

Except on Tuesdays, which is when the Emperor himself lays claim to his mistress, Charm herself.

But now―Charm is also the only person who can keep an empire together, as the Emperor summons her to his deathbed, and charges her with choosing which of his awful, faithless sons will carry on the empire―by discovering which one is responsible for his own murder.

If she does this last thing, she will finally have what has been denied her since the fall of Inshil―her freedom. But she will also be betraying the ghosts past and present that live on within her heart.

Charm must choose. Her dead Emperor’s will or the whispers of her own ghosts. Justice for the empire or her own revenge.

About the Author

Sara A. Mueller writes speculative fiction in the green and rainy Pacific Northwest, where she lives with her family, numerous recipe books, and a forest of fountain pens. In a nomadic youth, she trod the earth of every state but Alaska and lived in six of them. She’s an amateur historical costumer, gamer, and cook. She's spoken on panels at multiple Pacific NW cons on costume/clothing, horses, invisible disability, world building, and aspects of literature and writing. The Bone Orchard is her debut novel from Tor Books.