ELIZABETH KILCOYNE is an author, poet, and playwright from Lexington, Kentucky, who began this story at the same time her family undertook the process of establishing a cemetery on their tobacco farm in Central Kentucky. She has been published in several literary journals including Still: The Journal. Wake the Bones is her first novel.
Dark, gripping, and gorgeous, Wake the Bones will lead you into the woods and keep you up late. As lush and sweltering as a Kentucky summer... Elizabeth Kilcoyne is a force. - Gwenda Bond, New York Times bestselling author Raw, emotional, and deliciously gross, Wake the Bones is a read that will cling to your subconscious long after its final page. - Lauren Blackwood, author of Within These Wicked Walls Deliciously vile and viciously emotional, Wake the Bones is a debut you'll want to savor but will be forced to devour whole. Kilcoyne richly imagines a world where life and death are all tangled together, and love and loss are the true magic. I was held captive to the last haunting page and I hoped there was no release. - Courtney Gould, author of The Dead and the Dark Wake the Bones is an eerie southern gothic with dark magic, haunting atmosphere, and an engaging plot that kept my eyes glued to the pages. - Alexis Henderson author of The Year of the Witching With atmosphere as close and thick as summer heat, Wake the Bones is an unflinchingly gruesome delight. Kilcoyne's lush, spellbinding prose kept me racing through the pages--and examines the ways small-town horrors soak into the very earth. - Allison Saft, author of Down Comes the Night Seething with shadows, summer, and uniquely southern magic, Wake the Bones is a powerful debut that captures the ache of home being a place you simultaneously love and loathe. - Hannah Whitten, New York Times bestselling author of For the Wolf