After traveling 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
at Sept-Tours, they reunite with the cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches—with
one significant exception. But the real threat to their future has yet
to be revealed, and when it is, the search for Ashmole 782 and its
missing pages takes on even more urgency. In the trilogy’s final volume,
Harkness deepens her themes of power and passion, family and caring,
past deeds and their present consequences. In ancestral homes and
university laboratories, using ancient knowledge and modern science,
from the hills of the Auvergne to the palaces of Venice and beyond, the
couple at last learn what the witches discovered so many centuries ago.
With more than one million copies sold in the United States and appearing in thirty-eight foreign editions, A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night
have landed on all of the major bestseller lists and garnered rave
reviews from countless publications. Eagerly awaited by Harkness’s
legion of fans, The Book of Life brings this superbly written series to a deeply satisfying close.
Deborah Harkness is the number one New York Times bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night. A history professor at the University of Southern California, Harkness has received Fulbright, Guggenheim, and National Humanities Center fellowships.