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Jenna Walker
by Nicole Fiorina
She craved an escape. He craved to be found. Two silent hearts thirsty, until they both drowned.
To my beloved black sea,
It was full dark when I snuck out of the castle to meet you. You wore those ripped black jeans and your new friend’s boots, with sleet from the forest still in the grooves. You moved awkwardly in your new clothes because you were still creating yourself, like one of your drawings. We drank vanilla cola from glass bottles and listened to a song about how fast the night changes over and over.
Two adults frolicking as youths, French kissing in secret to hide from winter and distract ourselves from the town crumbling around us. The way we touched each other was equally punishing and artful, painting a world where we could be together on each other’s skin. For a while, we pretended. For a while, I was the kind of woman you could be loyal to and fight for, and you weren’t the lost, forbidden Heathen. Now, it’s been days since I’ve seen you. I’ve decided long ago, and this is my last letter.
Everything I’ve worked so hard for—before you came along—will carry on as if our time together never happened. Don’t bother stopping me. As I once said, the tremor between us will only lead to carnage. But as I plunge a knife into the chest of the man I once desired to marry, I’ll think of all those foolish nights when we pretended, our time on Bone Island, vanilla cola, our stupid song, and you. Yes, my beloved black sea. I’ll think of you.
xx, a
Bone Island is book two in the Tales of Weeping Hollow Collection. For the best listening experience, listen to books in the order they are published.
April 23, 2023
| 𝐁𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝🕷️ “𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐭𝐨. 𝐈𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞, 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞, 𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐬 𝐰𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫. 𝐀 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬, 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧...
April 1, 2023
3.75-4⭐️ I must say that I’ve been thinking about Weeping Hollow frequently ever since I finished reading Hollow Heathens (book 1) that’s why returning to this world felt like coming home🫶🏻 Nicole created a world so captivating, that I couldn’t put Bone Island down, just like I when I read Hollow Heathens, even the pacing was not that fast. But the depth of the story?! JUST WOW. If I’m being honest, I wasn’t expecting Bone Island to be like this when Nicole first announced it. I wasn’t...
April 11, 2026
I started my reading journey of Nicole's with HH - that baby is so dear to me and consequently SWM, an absolutely beautiful heart-wrenching story I have yet to continue with the sequels, by giving them proper time. Bone Island wasn't the next NF book I had planned to pick; SWM 2 was on track but Bone Island just called to me. I realize as I am writing this much later btw, NF helped me realize how much Annabel Lee is one of my all time fav poems, but I digress. Bone island is by far my NF and...
April 13, 2023
There is zero denying that Nicole doesn’t just write books, she writes stories, ones that make you feel, make you think, make you cry, make you laugh and ones that truly make you feel like you’re walking alongside each character as the story builds. The world that she has created within Weeping Hollow is truly magical and I will forever wish that it was real so I could visit it. There really isn’t any amount of words that I could write to do this story justice and I truly mean that. Bone Island...
April 13, 2023
](https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_avp?ie=UTF8&nodeId=G8UYX7LALQC8V9KA) There is zero denying that Nicole doesn’t just write books, she writes stories, ones that make you feel, make you think, make you cry, make you laugh and ones that truly make you feel like you’re walking alongside each character as the story builds. The world that she has created within Weeping Hollow is truly magical and I will forever wish that it was real so I could visit it. There...
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