The Orchard of Bones

<p>When Evelyn Ward inherits her family's forgotten estate she only wants to sell the land and leave its ghosts behind. But the orchard surrounding the old house is not dead-it's waiting. Beneath its soil sleep generations of women bound to a secret harvest their voices humming in the roots their dreams fermenting in the wine cellar below.</p><p>As Evelyn unearths her family's past-through photographs diaries and the cryptic warnings of a reclusive gardener-she discovers the orchard feeds on more than rain and sunlight. It remembers. It hungers. And once a year it calls for the Keeper to return.</p><p>From award-winning dark fiction author <strong>Claire Whitmore</strong> comes a haunting gothic saga of blood memory and rebirth. <em>The Orchard of Bones</em> blends lyrical horror with mythic tragedy exploring how love grief and legacy take root in the soil-and what happens when the world itself begins to dream.</p><p>The orchard keeps what it loves.<br>And it loves you.</p>