The Bone Knife

Rae has learned to guard her family and her pride. A foot that was born misshapen has taught her to shrug off the stares and cruel remarks that follow her, and she keeps her feelings hidden behind a show of not caring. She has little patience for anything lovely, so when a faerie of unsettling beauty turns up at her home, her suspicion is immediate. His arrival also threatens the secret her sister is determined to keep. When the townsfolk arrive intent on killing him, Rae has to shield both her sister's secret and the stranger, and she may have to put herself at risk to do it.

The Bone Knife introduces Rae, who becomes the heroine of The Theft of Sunlight, published in March 2021. The story is set up as a companion piece to Thorn, published by HarperTeen and Hot Key Books in 2020, and readers are directed to it at the back of that novel.