Shadow of Night

Deborah Harkness

Book 2 of All Souls Trilogy

Picking up immediately after A Discovery of Witches, this historical fantasy follows witch Diana Bishop and vampire Matthew Clairmont as they travel back in time to Elizabethan London. There, Matthew resumes his old identity among the School of Night, a circle of spies, poets, and scholars, while Diana searches for a witch to train her in her growing powers and for clues to the mysterious alchemical manuscript Ashmole 782. The couple navigates court intrigue, old enemies, and the dangers of the past as their bond is tested by secrets from Matthew's history.