A New York Times bestseller!
тАЬA bewitching gem...I absolutely loved every moment of this story.тАЭ тАФStephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Caraval series
тАЬIf you loved the Hogwarts LibraryтАжyouтАЩll be right at home at Summershall.тАЭ тАФKatherine Arden, New York Times bestselling author of The Bear and the Nightingale
From the New York Times bestselling author of An Enchantment of Ravens comes an тАЬenthralling adventureтАЭ (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) about an apprentice at a magical library who must battle a powerful sorcerer to save her kingdom.
All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of AustermeerтАЩs Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorceryтАФmagical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather.
Then an act of sabotage releases the libraryтАЩs most dangerous grimoire, and Elisabeth is implicated in the crime. With no one to turn to but her sworn enemy, the sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn, and his mysterious demonic servant, she finds herself entangled in a centuries-old conspiracy. Not only could the Great Libraries go up in flames, but the world along with them.
As her alliance with Nathaniel grows stronger, Elisabeth starts to question everything sheтАЩs been taughtтАФabout sorcerers, about the libraries she loves, even about herself. For Elisabeth has a power she has never guessed, and a future she could never have imagined.