Spit Back the Bones
by Teagan Olivia King
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Pub Date Sep 23 2025 | Archive Date Sep 30 2025
Turner Publishing Company | Keylight Books
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Description
For fans of Midnight Mass comes a haunting new horromance. Something dreadful is festering in the old Thomas Bog. For years, it’s done what it has been taught to do—it swallows. But it’s done following orders.
It’s been three years since Mila Thomas’ brother Jed went missing and his case went cold. Since then, Mila has fled town, running from the voices of the dead that reach her from the depths of the old family bog, afraid she would hear her brother’s among them.
But when her younger sister, Agatha, calls her back home to celebrate her graduation, Mila can’t help but return to her old haunts. When she arrives, Mila comes face to face with the town reverend, who informs her that Agatha is now also missing. Finding her mother and the local police utterly useless, Mila opens herself up to the voices of the bog in the hopes that they can tell her where her sister is. But something else lurks beneath the bog's waters, something that would sooner hunt her than help her. As more bodies turn up on the sandy shores, Mila must overcome her complicated history with the reverend’s estranged son—the boy she never quite got over—to unearth the fate of the town’s missing members and the family secrets that may be behind everything.
Advance Praise
“Gruesomely romantic, Spit Back the Bones pulls you in as surely as the bog does. Gripping, ethereal, and ultimately hopeful.” —Hannah Whitten, New York Times bestselling author of For the Wolf
“Beautiful and impossibly filled with the stench of stagnant water and loamy earth, Spit Back the Bones is a slurry of pain, rage, and hope. In her haunting debut, King exposes the horrors of coming home to the ghosts we never really bury and the pervasive rot of regret.” —Tanya Pell, author of Her Wicked Roots and Cicada
"Emotional and atmospheric, Spit Back the Bones is dripping in heady bog water. You'll never look at black flies the same way again.” —Saratoga Schaefer, author of Serial Killer Support Group and Traditional Wife
“Spit Back the Bones is at once grotesque and hauntingly beautiful, exploring grief, rage, love, and of course, power—those who take it, and those who reclaim it. A monstrous debut that yanks at the heartstrings so well it hurts." —Amanda Linsmeier, author of Starlings and Six of Sorrow
Available Editions
EDITION | Hardcover |
ISBN | 9798887980744 |
PRICE | $33.99 (USD) |
PAGES | 320 |