Why we’re excited
Thalia Cross has grown up hidden on a Colorado mountain under her grandfather's strict rules. When her therapist vanishes, Thalia hears a dead woman calling from the woods, goes after it, and finds the therapist's bones, sun-bleached as if centuries old. The sheriff's son, her longtime crush, arrests her.
Abigail Owen is best known for the adult romantasy The Games Gods Play, and this is a standalone YA Gothic mystery. Good for teens who like small-town secrets and a heroine who hears the dead, with a slow-building romance running alongside the murder.
On our most-anticipated list since 22 October 2026. See all the most anticipated books →
What to know about The Bone Singer
Abigail Owen is a familiar name here: 2 of Abigail Owen’s books have full reviews, averaging 4.0 out of 5. Our favourite to date is The Things Gods Break (4★).
Readers have saved it often enough to put it at No. 11 on our list of August 2027’s most-anticipated releases.
From the publisher
The dead chose her. Now she has to figure out why.
Thalia Cross has spent eighteen years perfecting invisibility. Homeschooled on a mountain, warned away from town, kept just separate enough from everyone that loneliness became a personality trait. Her grandfather calls it protection. She calls it Thursday.
Then her therapist disappears into the Colorado wilderness, and Thalia follows a dead woman's voice into the dark.
What she finds in that clearing strips away every careful rule she's lived by: her therapist's bones arranged with unnerving precision, bleached white as if from centuries of sun. Before she can run, she slams straight into eighteen-year-old Bram Wilder, the sheriff's son and her longtime crush, two days from his first shift as a deputy, and apparently the universe's preferred instrument of her humiliation. He turned down a full ride to Stanford to stay in this town, and nobody seems to know why.
He arrests her. She almost respects it.
But something far worse than a murder charge is circling Wilder, Colorado, and Thalia can't outrun it alone. Pulled toward two other girls she has no reason to trust, she's starting to understand that her grandfather's rules weren't about keeping her safe. They were about keeping her quiet. About keeping her from discovering exactly what she is.
Because something ancient is sealed in these mountains. It has been waiting a very long time. And the dead, who have always been the only honest voices in Wilder, keep whispering the same thing.
Her name.
The Inheritance Games meets Caraval in this propulsive, gothic, slow-burn thriller that will wreck your sleep schedule completely.
The Bone Singer. Coming this fall. Pre-order now.
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