Shadow Of Night

Product Description

It began with A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES. Historian Diana Bishop descended from a line of powerful witches & long-lived vampire Matthew Clairmont have broken the laws dividing creatures. When Diana discovered a significant alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library she sparked a struggle in which she became bound to Matthew. Now the fragile coexistence of witches daemons vampires & humans is dangerously threatened. Seeking safety Diana & Matthew travel back in time to London 1590. But they soon realise that the past may not provide a haven. Reclaiming his former identity as poet & spy for Queen Elizabeth the vampire falls back in with a group of radicals known as the School of Night. Many are unruly daemons the creative minds of the age including playwright Christopher Marlowe & mathematician Thomas Harriot. Together Matthew & Diana scour Tudor London for the elusive manuscript Ashmole 782 & search for the witch who will teach Diana how to control her remarkable powers... Fall under the spell of Diana & Matthew once more in this stunning richly imagined epic tale.