Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil is a genre-defying novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author V.E. Schwab, published June 10, 2025 by Macmillan (Tor/Forge). A 535-page hardcover, it won the 2025 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Fantasy and debuted as a #1 NYT, USA Today, and National Indie bestseller.

The novel weaves together three storylines across centuries and continents: in 1532 Santo Domingo de la Calzada, a young woman named María makes a desperate bargain with an alluring stranger to escape a life defined by men's ambitions; in 1827 London, Charlotte is swept up by a beautiful widow whose offer of freedom carries an unimaginable price; and in 2019 Boston, college student Alice is drawn into a hunt for answers and revenge following a transformative encounter. All three stories converge around the vampire myth, used here to explore hunger, desire, female rage, and the cost of immortality across different eras.

The book features queer romance (F/F), multiple timelines, gothic atmosphere, and themes of female agency and survival. Schwab uses the vampire mythos to examine how women are forced to reckon with a world that would rather see them diminished, crafting a lyrical meditation on what it means to want more than the world will willingly give.