BURY OUR BONES IN THE MIDNIGHT SOIL by V. E. SCHWAB Free Novel Chapter 1
I Santo Domingo de la Calzada, Spain 1521 The widow arrives on a Wednesday. María remembers, because Wednesdays are for bathing, and her hair takes an age to dry after it’s been washed and combed. She remembers, because it is warm for the end of April, and she is sitting in a patch of sun