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Borrowed Bones
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Expected 22 Jun 26When grief cries loud enough, something answers.
After the death of his wife, Russ Simmons is barely surviving. He walks in the woods behind his house every night, whispering his love into the darkness. He never expected the darkness to whisper back.
Something emerges from the woods behind his home. It talks to him in her voice, and with each passing night, it becomes more of what he's lost.
As the creature learns, Hachette begins to suffer. A body is found in the woods, a farmer's livestock is butchered and sorted like specimens, and a young child goes missing.
At the center of an ever-tightening circle of violence sits a small house where a grieving widower has stopped asking why his wife had to die, and started asking what he’s willing to sacrifice to get her back.
For fans of dark literary horror and emotional devastation, Borrowed Bones explores the terrible weight of love that refuses to let go, and the monstrous lengths we'll go to when we can't accept goodbye.
A haunting meditation on grief, obsession, and the things we build from our broken hearts.
After the death of his wife, Russ Simmons is barely surviving. He walks in the woods behind his house every night, whispering his love into the darkness. He never expected the darkness to whisper back.
Something emerges from the woods behind his home. It talks to him in her voice, and with each passing night, it becomes more of what he's lost.
As the creature learns, Hachette begins to suffer. A body is found in the woods, a farmer's livestock is butchered and sorted like specimens, and a young child goes missing.
At the center of an ever-tightening circle of violence sits a small house where a grieving widower has stopped asking why his wife had to die, and started asking what he’s willing to sacrifice to get her back.
For fans of dark literary horror and emotional devastation, Borrowed Bones explores the terrible weight of love that refuses to let go, and the monstrous lengths we'll go to when we can't accept goodbye.
A haunting meditation on grief, obsession, and the things we build from our broken hearts.
201 pages, Kindle Edition
Expected publication June 22, 2026
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Review of advance copy received from Author
In Borrowed Bones, grief has a voice…and it knows your name.
Russ Simmons thought he found the home he’d grow old in with his wife. But after tragedy rips that future away, the familiar trails they used to walk behind the house begin to change. The woods don’t just hold memories anymore, they call to him…and the voice waiting in the tree-line sounds like someone he lost.
Borrowed Bones signals Winona Morris as a future literary horror giant. Morris doesn’t just tell a horror story, she weaponizes grief. Every page tightens like a vice, wrapping your heart in its bony hands and squeezing until you can’t breathe.
Borrowed Bones is perfect for readers that want to get lost in slow-burn, psychological horror that latches on like a parasite long after the final page.
Review of advance copy received from Author
This was a wonderful and terrifying story about love, grief and what can happen if you wish hard enough. Russ has lost his wife, Liza to cancer. He is so depressed and grief stricken that he is barely able to function. But a horrible presence has come to the woods behind the cozy home he shared with Liza. People are dying as the creature in the woods tries to build itself into an image using parts of its victims. Russ and the creature share a bond that makes Russ refuse to betray it to the towns people and the police all of whom want it dead. The story is very fast paced and you will not want to put it down.
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