Bone Memory

What would you sacrifice to save one life?

Marcus Webb has spent twelve years cutting meat at a supermarket, never questioning what he's cutting, until he finds a message carved into a bone. Then another. And another. Desperate pleas from inside the processing facilities, proof that some of the Bred are conscious, aware, and human.

When Marcus discovers his missing brother's distinctive scar on a cut he's preparing, his comfortable denial shatters. David wasn't "relocated for work." He was processed. And Marcus has been serving him to customers.

In a world forty years after an extinction event killed all animals except humans, society survives on a horrifying solution: breeding humans for consumption. The system insists the Bred are unconscious, barely aware. But the messages prove otherwise. Someone inside the facilities is awake, teaching others, building a network, and begging for witness.

Marcus teams with Angie, a fellow butcher haunted by her own discovery, and an Underground resistance network to attempt the impossible: extract a conscious Bred scheduled for processing from the facility that's been her prison since birth.

The cost will be everything. Citizenship. Identity. Lives. And when they expose the truth to the world, society shrugs and continues eating.

Bone Memory is a visceral literary horror novel about complicity, witness, and the terrible price of doing the right thing when right changes almost nothing. For readers who crave horror that doesn't just frighten, it implicates.

One person saved. Three people dead. A system that continues. And the question that haunts forever: was it worth it?