An epic, richly inventive, historically sweeping, magical romance.
When historian Diana Bishop opens an alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, it's an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully ordered life. Though Diana is a witch of impeccable lineage, the violent death of her parents while she was still …
An epic, richly inventive, historically sweeping, magical romance.
When historian Diana Bishop opens an alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, it's an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully ordered life. Though Diana is a witch of impeccable lineage, the violent death of her parents while she was still a child convinced her that human fear is more potent than any witchcraft. Now Diana has unwittingly exposed herself to a world she's kept at bay for years; one of powerful witches, creative, destructive daemons and long-lived vampires.
Sensing the significance of Diana's discovery, the creatures gather in Oxford, among them the enigmatic Matthew Clairmont, a vampire genticist. Diana is inexplicably drawn to Matthew and, in a shadowy world of half-truths and old enmities, ties herself to him without fully understanding the ancient line they are crossing.
As they begin to unlock the secrets of the manuscript and their feelings for each other deepen, so the fragile balance of peace unravels.
trade paperback, 579 pages
English language
Published 2011 by Penguin.
Paperback, 720 pages
Published by Headline, imusti.
Paperback, 592 pages
Published by Penguin Books.
579 pages
English language
Published 2011 by Viking.
Paperback, 752 pages
Published by Penguin Books.
Paperback, 608 pages
Published by Headline Publishing Group.
audio cd, 1 pages
Published by Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing.
audio book
Published 2011 by Penguin Audio.
881 pages
Published 2011 by Thorndike Press, Thorndike, Windsor.
879 pages
English language
Published 2011 by Large Print Press.
792 pages
Spanish language
Published 2017 by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial.
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