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In "Not even Bones," a reluctant teenage girl named Nita helps her mother run a black-market operation that sells the body parts of supernatural creatures. Though Nita herself avoids murder, she secretly performs dissections on the bodies once they are acquired. The uneasy mother-daughter partnership is shaken when a live monster arrives at their doorstep, prompting Nita to question the boundaries of her role and decide whether to step away from the underground trade.
The novel blends horror and dark humor within a children’s fiction framework, focusing on the complex dynamics between mother and daughter, the ethical compromises of the black market, and the unsettling world of monster lore.
First publish date: 2018
Genre: Horror/Supernatural Horror
Authors: Rebecca Schaeffer
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