A New York Times bestseller! A bewitching gem. . . I absolutely loved every moment of this story. -Stephanie Garber; #1 New York Times Bestselling author of the Caraval series If you loved the Hogwarts Library. . . youll be right at 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 a magical library who must battle a powerful sorcerer to save her kingdom. All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeers Great Libraries; Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery-magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked; they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. then an act of sabotage releases the librarys most dangerous grimoire; and Elisabeth is implicated in the crime. With no one to turn to but her sworn enemy; the sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn; and his mysterious demonic servant; she finds herself entangled in a centuries-old conspiracy. Not only could the Great Libraries go up in flames; but the world along with them. As her alliance with Nathaniel grows stronger; Elisabeth starts to question everything shes been taught-about sorcerers; about the libraries she loves; even about herself. For Elisabeth has a power she has never guessed; and a future she could never have imagined.