Return to Kat Howard's Alex Award-winning world begun in An
Unkindness of Magicians, a secret society of power-hungry magicians in
New York City.
After taking down the source of the corruption of the Unseen World,
Sydney is left with almost no magical ability. Feeling estranged from
herself, she is determined to find a way back to her status as one of
the world's most dangerous magicians. Unfortunately, she needs to do
this quickly: the House of Shadows, the hell on earth that shaped her
into who she was, the place she sacrificed everything to destroy, is
rebuilding itself.
"The House of shadows sits on bones. All of the sacrifices, all of the
magicians who died in Shadows, they're buried beneath the foundations.
Bones hold magic."
The magic of the Unseen World is acting strangely, faltering, bleeding
out from the edges. Determined to keep the House of Shadows from
returning to power and to defeat the magicians who want nothing more
than to have it back, Sydney turns to extremes in a desperate attempt to
regain her sacrificed magic. She is forced to decide what she will give
up and what she will lose and whether what must be destroyed is not only
the House of Shadows, but the Unseen World itself.
World Fantasy Award finalist Kat Howard has written a sequel that asks
how you have a happily ever in a world that doesn't want it, where the
cost of that happiness may be too much to bear.
