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ANew York Timesbestseller!

A bewitching gem…I absolutely loved every moment of this story. Stephanie Garber, #1New York Timesbestselling author of the Caraval series
If you loved the Hogwarts Libraryyoull be right at home at Summershall. Katherine Arden,New York Timesbestselling author ofThe Bear and the Nightingale

From theNew York Timesbestselling author ofAn Enchantment of Ravenscomes 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 Austermeers Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcerymagical 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 librarys 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 shes been taughtabout 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.