THE NO‎.‎1 SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES HARDBACK BESTSELLER

Fall under the spell of Diana and Matthew once more in the stunning climax to their epic tale‎,‎ following A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES and SHADOW OF NIGHT‎.‎

A world of witches‎,‎ daemons and vampires‎.‎ A manuscript which holds the secrets of their past and the key to their future‎.‎ Diana and Matthew ‎- the forbidden love at the heart of it‎.‎

After travelling through time in SHADOW OF NIGHT‎,‎ the second book in Deborah Harkness‎'‎s enchant­ing series‎,‎ historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies‎.‎ At Matthew‎'‎s ancestral home in France they reunite with their families ‎- with one heart‎-breaking exception‎.‎ But the real threat to their future is yet to be revealed‎,‎ and when it is‎,‎ the search for the elusive manuscript Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on a terrifying urgency‎.‎ Using ancient knowl­edge and modern science‎,‎ from the palaces of Venice and beyond‎,‎ Diana and Matthew will finally learn what the witches discovered so many centuries ago‎.‎