The exciting third installment in the ALL SOULS trilogy following the No.1 internationally bestselling A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES and SHADOW OF NIGHT

What a rich, thrilling and educational tale is... A captivating and romantic ripping yarn -- E L James Guardian Intelligent and off-the-wall...irresistible to Twilight fans The Sunday Times Spellbinding... Unputdownable Woman & Home This is a glorious, finely-wrought gem of a book: intelligent, thoughtful, intricate... I could lose myself in here and never want to come out: what better accolade can there be? ...Utterly enchanting on every level -- Manda Scott A bubbling cauldron of illicit desire...all the ingredients for an assured saga that blends romance with fantasy Daily Mail A vast, sexy, historical romp of a novel. There's no doubting Harkness's vivid imagination Daily Mirror An inventive addition to the supernatural craze...has exciting amounts of spells, kisses and battles, and is recounted with enchanting, page-turning panache Marie Claire

Deborah Harkness is a professor of history at USC, specialising in science and medicine in early modern Europe. She is the author recently of THE JEWEL HOUSE (Yale, 2007), based on her ground-breaking work on how science was practiced in Elizabethan London, as well as the international bestsellers A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES and SHADOW OF NIGHT. (And she really did once find a missing manuscript in the Bodleian Library!)