Bonesmith: The thrilling Sunday Times bestseller

Jodi Meadows' dark fantasy thriller, "A Deadly Education," follows a disgraced ghost-fighting warrior on a quest to rescue a kidnapped prince from a haunted wasteland. Along the way, she forms an uneasy alliance with a House of Iron prince, and they must combat a dark alliance between the living and the undead. The book has received high praise for its dark and thrilling storyline, with readers calling it "fantastically dark" and "hooked from the first page."

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 464 pages
Publication date: 16 July 2024
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

JODI MEADOWS'S "GHOST-FIGHTING WARRIOR" IS A DARK FANTASY THRILLER THAT FOLLOWS THE JOURNEY OF A DISGRACED GHOST-FIGHTING WARRIOR AS SHE JOURNEYS INTO A HAUNTED WASTELAND TO RESCUE A KIDNAPPED PRINCE. SET IN THE DOMINIONS, WHERE THE DEAD ARE VIOLENT AND PREDICTABLE, THE STORY FOLLOWS WREN, A BONE-SMITH WHO BECOMES A VALKYR - A GHOST-FIGHTING WARRIOR - TO SOLIDIFY HER PLACE IN THE NOBLE HOUSE OF BONE AND IMPRESS HER FREQUENTLY ABSENT FATHER. WHEN SABOTAGE CAUSES WREN TO FAIL HER QUALIFYING TRIAL, SHE IS BANISHED TO THE BORDER WALL, THE LAST LINE OF DEFENCE AGAINST A WASTELAND CALLED THE BREACH WHERE THE VICIOUS DEAD ROAM UNCHECKED. DETERMINED TO RECLAIM HER FAMILY'S RESPECT, WREN GETS HER CHANCE WHEN A HOUSE OF GOLD PRINCE IS KIDNAPPED AND TAKEN BEYOND THE WALL. TO PROVE SHE HAS WHAT IT TAKES TO BE A VALKYR, WREN VOWS TO CROSS THE BREACH AND RESCUE THE PRINCE. BUT TO DO SO, SHE'S FORCED INTO AN UNEASY ALLIANCE WITH ONE OF THE KIDNAPPERS - A FIERCE IRONSMITH CALLED JULIAN FROM THE EXILED HOUSE OF IRON, THE VERY PEOPLE WHO CAUSED THE BREACH IN THE FIRST PLACE...AND THE HOUSE OF BONE'S SWORN ENEMY. AS THEY TRAVEL, WREN AND JULIAN SPEND AS MUCH TIME FIGHTING EACH OTHER AS THEY DO THE UNDEAD, BUT WHEN THEY DISCOVER THERE'S MORE BEHIND THE KIDNAPPING THAN EITHER OF THEM KNEW, THEY'LL NEED TO WORK TOGETHER TO COMBAT THE REAL DANGER: A DARK ALLIANCE THAT IS BREWING BETWEEN THE LIVING AND THE UNDEAD.

Weight: 322g
Dimension: 129 x 198 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781399722384