title: The Bone Weaver
author:  Victoria Zackheim 
description: "...The sense of place in this first novel, both in the past and present, is captivating and profound." -- <i>Book Passage News &amp; Reviews</i>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"...a unique, powerful, moving, inspiring, and very highly recommended novel." -- <i>-The Midwest Book Review</i>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"In this lovely novel about a woman in mourning, remembrance of family history plays an important part." --<i>Bellingham Herald</i>
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  Bone Shop
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  T. A. Pratt
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Lulu.com (2009)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ### Product Description
  
  Bone Shop is a prequel novel about the early adventures of Marla Mason,
  heroine of the urban fantasy novels Blood Engines, Poison Sleep, Dead Reign,
  and Spell Games.
  
  
  ![](index-1_1.jpg)
  
  
  **Bone Shop**
  
  
  ## **Tim Pratt**
  
  
  
  
  
  ## **1**
  
  
  Marla Mason spent the afternoon of her sixteenth birthday with a pyromaniac
  named Jenny Click. They sat shoulder-to-shoulder against the support pillar of
  an overpass, trying to stay out of the late spring rain, and discussed their
  options.
  
  
  "The thing is, maybe I should follow my passion,"
  
  
  Jenny said. She wore a transparent raincoat over an increasingly ratty sweater
  and a
  
  
  rapidly-
  
  
  disintegrating pair of jeans.
  
  
  "Which passion?" Marla said. "Sex, drugs, or setting fires?" They hadn't known
  one another very long, but spending time together on th