A New York Moments bestseller!

“A bewitching jewel…I definitely loved every moment of this story.” —Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Caraval series

“If you cherished the Hogwarts Library…you’ll end up being right in the 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 about Sorcery of Thorns a magical library who must battle a robust sorcerer to save her kingdom.

All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth provides known that so long as she’s known anything. Raised like a foundling in one of Austermeer’s Great Libraries, Elisabeth is continuing to grow up among the various tools of sorcery—magical grimoires that whisper on cabinets and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and natural leather.

After that an act of sabotage releases the library’s most dangerous grimoire, and Elisabeth is implicated in the crime. With no one to consider but her sworn enemy, the sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn, and his secret demonic servant, she discovers herself entangled within a centuries-old conspiracy. Not merely could the Great Libraries go up in flames, but the globe along with them.

As her alliance with Nathaniel develops stronger, Elisabeth starts to query everything she’s been taught—about sorcerers, about the libraries she enjoys, also about herself. For Elisabeth has a power she has under no circumstances guessed, and another she could never have imagined.