Author(s): Deborah Harkness (University of Southern California)

Fantasy Science Fiction Horror

The #1 "New York Times"-bestselling sequel to "A Discovery of Witches"--"as enchanting, engrossing, and impossible to put down as its predecessor" ("Miami Herald") J. K. Rowling, Stephenie Meyer, Anne Rice--only a few writers capture the imagination the way that Deborah Harkness has with her "New York Times"-bestselling All Souls trilogy. "A Discovery of Witches" introduces reluctant witch Diana Bishop, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont, and the battle for a lost, enchanted manuscript known as "Ashmole 782." Picking up from "A Discovery of Witches"' cliffhanger ending, "Shadow of Night "takes Diana and Matthew on a trip through time to Elizabethan London, where they are plunged into a world of spies, magic, and a coterie of Matthew's old friends, the School of Night. As the search for "Ashmole 782 "deepens and Diana seeks out a witch to tutor her in magic, the net of Matthew's past tightens around them, and they embark on a very different--and vastly more dangerous--journey. "The Book of Life," the much-anticipated conclusion to the All Souls trilogy, will be published by Viking in July 2014.