An ARKANE Thriller by J.F. Penn
Valley of Dry Bones
The power to raise the dead… will mean the end of all life.
Seven nights of rain open a hidden bone chamber beneath New Orleans' oldest cemetery, and a monk dies protecting an empty casket.
Five finger-bone reliquaries, scattered across the old Spanish Empire, hold a power out of Ezekiel's valley: the power to make dry bones live.
A dying billionaire will pay any price for them.
When one of ARKANE's own is taken, Morgan and Jake have three days, a trail from the bayou to the Philippines to Alcatraz, and a ritual that begins with digging your own grave.
First, you must dig your own grave.
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The research behind the book
St Louis Cemetery No. 1
Marie Laveau's tomb, the city of the dead above ground, and a chamber the rain opened.
Learn more →Pere Antoine
The real Capuchin priest, the Inquisition's man in New Orleans, who baptised and married Marie Laveau.
The faith behind the cliche
Jo's guides showed her how deeply voodoo entwines with Catholicism. The book honours the tradition.
Learn more →The science of zombies
Wade Davis's The Serpent and the Rainbow: the real anthropology beneath the resurrection powder.
The immortality industry
Young-blood transfusions, longevity labs, the Methuselah Foundation: the death-cheating economy is real.
Ezekiel's valley
Come, breath, from the four winds: the vision of dry bones made to live again.
Stone of Fire
Book 1
Crypt of Bone
Book 2
Ark of Blood
Book 3
One Day in Budapest
Book 4
Day of the Vikings
Book 5
Gates of Hell
Book 6
One Day in New York
Book 7
Destroyer of Worlds
Book 8
End of Days
Book 9
Valley of Dry Bones
Book 10 · this book
Tree of Life
Book 11
Tomb of Relics
Book 12
Soldiers of God
Short story
Spear of Destiny
Book 13