A New York Times bestseller!
"A bewitching gem...I absolutely loved every moment of this story."
--Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the
Caraval series
"If you loved the Hogwarts Library...you'll be right at home at
Summershall." --Katherine 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 "enthralling adventure" (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 Austermeer's Great
Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery--magical
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 library's 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 she's been taught--about 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.
