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All Your Pretty Bones

A dark academia novel — and I'm looking for alpha & beta readers to walk its halls before anyone else does.

The Premise

"She needed a weapon. She got a soulmate. Same difference, probably."

A desperate student summons history's most dangerous wizard to find her missing mother — and accidentally binds her soul to his. Oops.

All Your Pretty Bones is currently in progress. I'm building a small circle of alpha and beta readers to read early and give honest feedback as the manuscript takes shape.

Comp ShelfNinth House · A Deadly Education · Fourth Wing

Status Drafting · First draft expected Late Fall/Winter 2026

About the Author

Mary Paul, author of All Your Pretty Bones

Mary Paul is a former Wesleyan professor and multidisciplinary artist with a lifelong weakness for old libraries, morally gray men, and staircases that probably shouldn't exist. All Your Pretty Bones is her first foray into dark academic romantasy.

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