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Jess Watkins

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Jess is an avid reader, writer and chocolate devourer. She runs a book blog called A Book Addict's Bookshelves. She has lived in three different countries and owns an unreasonable number of t-shirts.
She is the author of Girl Meets Underworld, As We Lie Dying and The Curse of the Sea. She also has short stories in two anthologies: Escaping Rapture which is part of the After Tomorrow Anthology, and Renee and The Wolf which is part of the Mystical Bites Anthology.
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Jess Watkins Hi Nikki,
Girl Meets Underworld is currently not available to buy as I ended the contract with the publisher and I'm planning to re-write it.
I do have …more
Hi Nikki,
Girl Meets Underworld is currently not available to buy as I ended the contract with the publisher and I'm planning to re-write it.
I do have some works in progress on Wattpad if you'd like to read those (some are paranormal) :) My username is snowglobe10.
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Jess Watkins Hi, Tempest. I'm not currently planning a sequel as I'm working on other projects but I might consider it in the future :)
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Hi, Tempest. I'm not currently planning a sequel as I'm working on other projects but I might consider it in the future :)
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Girl Meets Underworld (Girl...

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 Title: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

Author: V.E. Schwab

Pages: 514

Publisher: Tor

Release Date: 10th June 2025

 

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 This is a story about hunger. 
1532. Santo Domingo de la Calzada. 
A young girl grows up wild and wily—her beauty is only outmatched by her dreams of escape. But María knows she can only ever be a prize, or a pawn, in the games played by men. When an

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