Bone Carved explores the moment when Holly first faces a life-sucking spirit of Lower World. Holly Bennett teams up with her best friend to con classmates into thinking they're being haunted. It's super unethical, but Holly needs the extra cash, especially since her mother's mind is perilously stuck halfway between the real world and the spirit world. Someone has to make a living until Holly figures out how to save her, and her dad's fugitive status means it sure as hell won't be him. When Holly's crush, comic book nerd Nathan Whitman, comes to her for help, Holly assumes that Laura's behind another fake haunting, as per usual. But when Holly shows up at Nathan's house, there's no sign of a con around. Something full of dark magic is swirling inside his room, and Holly must face a real spirit of Lower World for the very first time. Or both of their lives will be sucked dry before she can even count to ten.

Sixteen year old Holly Bennett is a comic book nerd, a con artist...and a shaman. Most days Holly wishes she could trade in her power of spirit communication for something more useful—like fireballs or Wolverine claws. She knows spirits aren't exactly Casper the Friendly Ghosts. They're dangerous beings from Lower World who snack on human life, and messing with the magic from their world is an express ticket to big trouble. But when a shaman sticks her mom's mind between their world and ours, Holly becomes the unexpected breadwinner in the family. She uses her burgeoning shaman powers to set up fake hauntings and "banish" the so-called ghosts from her wealthy classmates' bedrooms. For a fee, of course. When actual spirits start manifesting, Holly discovers that other shamans have come to town, summoning life-sucking spirits for their own ends. And the newcomers may just hold the clue Holly's been looking for—the one that can release her mom's mind from its Lower World prison. With the help of both a cute web comic artist and her partner-in-con, Holly plots to take them down, throwing her into a whirlwind of speedboat getaways, breaking and entering, and astral projections into the spirit world. And as her mom's mind slips further away, Holly has to fight to save her, and the rest of the town, before they get sucked into Lower World permanently.

Just when Holly Bennett thinks life in the sleepy town of Seaport might finally be back to normal—or as normal as it gets when you're a shaman—the you-know-what hits the fan again. Nathan, her sweet boyfriend, turns distant and cold. Her best friend Laura grows secretive and paranoid, and her mother disappears to hunt a dangerous shaman. Naturally, that's the moment soul-sucking spirits descend upon Seaport, leaving a trail of corpses in their wake. And familiar faces lie among the dead. Holly struggles to stop the carnage, but she soon finds these spirits are impervious to her powers. Alone and confused, she must unlock their secrets while there's still something of Seaport left to save. But when the sinister truth is revealed, friendships will break and lives will be lost. And Holly will learn what it means to be utterly betrayed.