Inside the room (where she works) she finds a ducka boy handcuffed in a cage. When her mother brings her to the basement to see the new corpse, she soon realizes what her mother brought home. By the next afternoon, her mother has returned with her target and they talk about her trip. As she works, her mother announces that she will be leaving for Buenos Aires that night for another target.

Nita aspires to go to college and become a scientist but loves being able to dissect the bodies her mother brings home. She first goes through his wallet, with all of the credit cards already used by her mother, and doesn't look at anything that will tell her about the man, since she won't be able to dissect him if she knows him. After working on so many zannies in Southeast Asia, Nita had hoped to work on other unnaturals now that they are in Peru, but begins her work to prepare the body to be sold. There is a corpse on the table in front of Nita, a zannie that her mother has just brought home for her to dissect. But when she decides to save her mother’s victim, she ends up sold in his place-because Nita herself isn’t exactly “human.” She has the ability to alter her biology, a talent that is priceless on the black market. Now on the other side of the bars, if she wants to escape, Nita must ask herself if she’s willing to become the worst kind of monster. Nita just dissects the bodies after they’ve been “acquired.” Until her mom brings home a live specimen and Nita decides she wants out dissecting a scared teenage boy is a step too far. Nita doesn’t murder supernatural beings and sell their body parts on the internet-her mother does that.

'Twisty, grisly, genre-bending and immersive, Not Even Bones will grab you by the throat and drag you along as it gleefully tramples all of your expectations.' -Sara Holland, New York Times best-selling author of Everless Dexter meets This Savage Song in this dark fantasy about a girl who sells magical body parts on the black market - until she’s betrayed. The tagline reads: 'Betrayal is a bloody business.' The cover art shows a bloody scalpel on a white background. It was released on Septemand published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Not Even Bones is the first book in the Market of Monsters trilogy written by Rebecca Schaeffer. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publication order Next

Not even bones only ashes remain