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May 26, 2015 · The #1 New York Times bestselling third installment in the All Souls series, from the author of The Discovery of Witches and The Black Bird Oracle. Look for the hit series “A Discovery of Witches,” now streaming on AMC+, Sundance Now, and Shudder!Bringing the magic and suspense of the All Souls Trilogy to a deeply satisfying conclusion, this highly anticipated finale went straight to #1 on ...
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is the third and final installment of the All Souls Trilogy. It was published on July 15, 2014 in hardback, e-book, and audiobook in the US, UK, Canada, and Ireland.
On January 9, 2014, the United States front cover and a two page excerpt were released to the public on USA Today. On May 12, 2014, chapter 1 was released on Harkness's website, courtesy of Viking and Headline. Chapter 1 was made available to readers in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand via iTunes.
After traveling through time in Shadow of Night, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. At Matthew 's ancestral home at Sept-Tours, they reunite with the cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches—with one significant exception. But the real threat to t...
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The third book in the series opens with the deceased witch Emily Mather and vampire Philippe de Clermont, as ghosts, seeing Matthew and Diana arrive to Sept-Tours. They realize that Diana is pregnant with twins by Matthew. When Emily says that Diana has never liked change, Philippe responds it's because Diana is afraid of what she must become.
Just before greeting Diana and Matthew upon their return to Sept-Tours, vampire Marcus Whitmore remembers how Diana's beloved aunt Emily Mather died while Diana was away. Emily was at the temple dedicated to the goddess near Sept-Tours, as well as vampire Gerbert of Aurillac and witch Peter Knox. Marcus' human fiancee, Phoebe Taylor, joins Marcus before they go out to greet Diana and Matthew. Phoebe is iron-willed and diplomatic.
At the same time at Sept-Tours, vampire Fernando Gonçalves cooks a tortilla española while talking with vampire Gallowglass about how Gallowglass saw Emily die. Peter Knox was touching Emily's head, then, when Emily's partner, Sarah, arrived and shouted her name, Knox released Emily, who crumpled to the ground unconscious and could not be revived. Fernando is the mate of the deceased vampire Hugh de Clermont, who was Gallowglass' father. Gallowglass reveals that Philippe adopted Diana as a daughter with a blood vow. They see Diana's familiar, a firedrake named Corra.
Sarah tells Diana the story of how Emily died, that Emily was using dangerous, higher magics to seek information from spirits about death and disaster that Emily was foreseeing. Knox was trying to read Emily's thoughts but Emily died saying that she knew the secret of the book known as Ashmole 782 and that he would never possess it. Knox threatened investigation into breaches of the covenant, one purpose of which is to hide creatures from coming to the attention of humans. The nine-member Congregation is responsible for enforcing the covenant.
Matthew takes care of Diana while she grieves, and Fernando looks after Sarah. Matthew and Gallowglass discuss that Diana's magical power has increased in the past months. Meanwhile, the ghosts of the deceased Emily and Philippe are joined by the ghost of witch Rebecca Bishop, Diana's deceased mother.
Jul 15, 2014 · The first book in Harkness’s beloved All Souls series, A Discovery of Witches, was an instant New York Times bestseller and the series has since expanded with the addition of subsequent NYT bestsellers, Shadow of Night (2012), The Book of Life (2014), and Time’s Convert (2018), as well as the companion reader, The World of All Souls.
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May 26, 2015 · The #1 New York Times bestselling third installment in the All Souls series, from the author of The Discovery of Witches and The Black Bird Oracle. Look for the hit series “A Discovery of Witches,” now streaming on AMC+, Sundance Now, and Shudder!Bringing the magic and suspense of the All Souls Trilogy to a deeply satisfying conclusion, this highly anticipated finale went straight to #1 on ...
Jul 15, 2014 · Dedicated scholar, reluctant witch, and seasoned time traveler Diana Bishop returns to wrap up the wildly popular All Souls trilogy. After a supernatural “meet-cute” in A Discovery of Witches, and a time-traveling adventure in Shadow of Night, Diana and vampire/scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present, continuing their pursuit of magical alchemical manuscript Ashmole 782, aka The ...
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The Book of Life picks up immediately where Shadow of Night left off, which had picked up immediately where A Discovery of Witches left off. Diana and Matthew have just returned from their months-long sojourn in 1590/1591 Elizabethan England (not to mention stops in Prague and France) and are determined to do what they need to do, which is find the missing pages from Ashmole 782, recall the ...
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Jul 15, 2014 · The amount of research that goes into a series like this must be mind staggering - this book was the last in the All Souls Trilogy, #1-A Discovery of Witches, #2-Shadow of The Night and #3-The Book of Life - and I'm so glad I have had the pleasure of reading all three of them, I can't wait to dig into the last book, The Book of Life again, I have read the first 2 books [3times each], and each ...
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