The Book of Life

About “The Book of Life”

After traveling through time in Shadow of Night, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to deal with new challenges and old enemies. At Matthew’s ancestral home, they reunite with characters from A Discovery of Witches, except for one. The search for the missing pages of Ashmole 782 becomes more urgent as a hidden threat emerges. In The Book of Life, the final novel in Deborah Harkness’s trilogy, themes of power, love, and the past are explored. The story spans locations from the Auvergne to Venice as Diana and Matthew uncover long-held secrets. The novel concludes the series with a satisfying resolution. The trilogy has sold more than one million copies in the U.S. and been translated into thirty-eight languages.