Her dead Emperor's will or the whispers of her own ghosts. But she will also be betraying the ghosts past and present that live on within her heart.Ĭharm must choose. If she does this last thing, she will finally have what has been denied her since the fall of Inshil-her freedom. The wealthy and powerful of Borenguard come to her house to buy time with the girls who aren't real.Įxcept on Tuesdays, which is when the Emperor himself lays claim to his mistress, Charm herself.īut now-Charm is also the only person who can keep an empire together, as the Emperor summons her to his deathbed, and charges her with choosing which of his awful, faithless sons will carry on the empire-by discovering which one is responsible for his own murder. Charm tends the trees and their clattering fruit for the sake of her children, painstakingly grown and regrown with its fruit: Shame, Justice, Desire, Pride, and Pain.Ĭharm is a whore, and a madam.
The last of a line of conquered necromantic workers, now confined within the yard of regrown bone trees at Orchard House, and the secrets of their marrow.Ĭharm is a prisoner, and a survivor. "A masterfully woven plot with refreshing narrators."- Publishers WeeklyĬRIMERAD'S MOST ANTICIPATED CRIME FICTION OF 2022Ĭharm is a witch, and she is alone.
"Mueller creates an intricate and richly characterized world in her gothic fantasy debut." - Buzzfeed Mueller's The Bone Orchard is a fascinating whodunit set in a lush, gothic world of secrets and magic-where a dying emperor charges his favorite concubine with solving his own murder, and preventing the culprit, which undoubtedly is one of his three terrible sons, from taking control of an empire.
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