From New York Times bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree - the soaring fifth novel in the bestselling Bone Season series.'A fabulous, epic fantasy thriller ... Lavish, ebullient, escapist' The Times'Samantha Shannon is a master storyteller and wordsmith' Katherine Webber 'Blazing a trail for a new generation of feminist fantasy authors
A seductively twisted romance about loyalty, fate, the lengths we go to hide the darkest parts of ourselves . . . and the people who love those parts most of all.
Only the extraordinary are chosen. Only the cunning survive. An explosive return to the library leaves the six Alexandrians vulnerable to the lethal terms of their recruitment. Old alliances quickly fracture as the initiates take opposing strategies as to how to deal with the deadly bargain they have so far failed to uphold. Those who remain with the archives wrestle with the ethics of their as