The fourth and final book in Kate Mosse's epic Joubert Family Chronicles following The Ghost Ship, City of Tears, and The Burning Chambers.

Olifantshoek, 1688. A handful of bones lie scattered in a shallow grave, white markers on the red earth. An isolated homestead stands in the shadow of the nearby mountains, its thatched roof cindered. When the vicious Cape wind blows from the south-east, they say the voices of the unquiet dead can be heard whispering through this deserted valley. Suzanne Joubert is here to walk in the footsteps of her cousin, Louise Reydon-Joubert, pirate and commander, who disappeared more than sixty years prior. Suzanne has come to find her and lay the stories to rest, but all is not as it seems.

Franschhoek, 1862. 180 years later, another member of the Joubert family stands in the Huguenot graveyard of the small Dutch frontier town once known as Oliftantshoek, now under British command. Isabeau Joubert, too, has come in search of the long-lost women of her family: to unravel, once and for all, the origins of a feud dating back to the vicious religious wars that tore France apart centuries before. But the tragedies and crimes of the past are far from over, and Isabeau must race against time to not only discover the truth, but escape with her life as well.

A sweeping, heartbreaking novel of adventure and hardship, dispossession and injustice, The Map of Bones tells of generations of courageous women battling to survive in a hostile land, and of revenge, retribution, and ultimately, redemption. Most of all, it is a story about the importance of women bearing witness and the power of the written word.