Though Diana is a witch of impeccable lineage, the violent death of her parents while she was still a child convinced her that human fear is more potent than any witchcraft. Diana and Matthew - the forbidden love at the heart of it When historian Diana Bishop opens an alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, it's an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully ordered life. A manuscript which holds the secrets of their past and the key to their future. A world of witches, daemons and vampires. Together Matthew and Diana scour Tudor London for the elusive manuscript Ashmole 782, and search for the witch who will teach Diana how to control her remarkable powers.įall under the spell of Diana and Matthew in the stunning first volume of the No.1 internationally bestsellling All Souls trilogy.
Many are unruly daemons, the creative minds of the age, including playwright Christopher Marlowe and mathematician Thomas Harriot. Reclaiming his former identity as poet and spy for Queen Elizabeth, the vampire falls back in with a group of radicals known as the School of Night. But they soon realise that the past may not provide a haven. Seeking safety, Diana and Matthew travel back in time to London, 1590.
Now the coexistence of witches, daemons, vampires and humans is dangerously threatened. When Diana Bishop, descended from a line of powerful witches, discovered a significant alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, she sparked a struggle in which she became bound to long-lived vampire Matthew Clairmont. To discover the manuscript which holds their hope for the future, they must now travel back to the past. Diana and Matthew's forbidden love has broken the laws dividing creatures. In a world of witches, daemons and vampires the fragile balance of peace is unravelling. Using ancient knowledge and modern science, from the palaces of Venice and beyond, Diana and Matthew will finally learn what the witches discovered so many centuries ago. But the real threat to their future is yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for the elusive manuscript Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on a terrifying urgency. At Matthew's ancestral home in France they reunite with their families - with one heart-breaking exception. After travelling through time in Shadow of Night, the second book in Deborah Harkness's enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. Diana and Matthew - the forbidden love at the heart of it. All Souls Trilogy Deborah Harkness Collection - 3 Books Setįall under the spell of Diana and Matthew once more in the stunning climax to their epic tale, following A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night.
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