Description

Two strangers find themselves connected by a vast and mysterious library containing many wonders and still more secrets in this powerfully moving first book in a new series from the international bestselling author of Red Sister and Prince of Thorns

The boy has lived his whole life trapped within a bookchoked chamber older than empires and larger than cities

The girl has been plucked from the outskirts of civilization to be trained as a librarian studying the mysteries of the great library at the heart of her kingdom

They were never supposed to meet But in the library they did

Their stories spiral around each other across worlds and time This is a tale of truth and lies and hearts and the blurring of one into another A journey on which knowledge erodes certainty and on which though the pen may be mightier than the sword blood will be spilled and cities burned