Table Of ContentCover Page: V
Title Page Page: V
Map Page: V
Dedication Page: V
Chapter One Page: 1
Chapter Two Page: 12
Chapter Three Page: 25
Chapter Four Page: 31
Chapter Five Page: 42
Chapter Six Page: 50
Chapter Seven Page: 60
Chapter Eight Page: 73
Chapter Nine Page: 86
Chapter Ten Page: 100
Chapter Eleven Page: 113
Chapter Twelve Page: 122
Chapter Thirteen Page: 135
Chapter Fourteen Page: 146
Chapter Fifteen Page: 159
Chapter Sixteen Page: 169
Chapter Seventeen Page: 182
Chapter Eighteen Page: 191
Chapter Nineteen Page: 206
Chapter Twenty Page: 220
Chapter Twenty-One Page: 230
Chapter Twenty-Two Page: 242
Chapter Twenty-Three Page: 256
Chapter Twenty-Four Page: 264
Chapter Twenty-Five Page: 278
Chapter Twenty-Six Page: 294
Chapter Twenty-Seven Page: 307
Chapter Twenty-Eight Page: 323
Chapter Twenty-Nine Page: 334
Chapter Thirty Page: 348
Chapter Thirty-One Page: 356
Chapter Thirty-Two Page: 369
Chapter Thirty-Three Page: 383
Chapter Thirty-Four Page: 390
Chapter Thirty-Five Page: 405
Chapter Thirty-Six Page: 421
Epilogue Page: 439
Acknowledgments Page: 455
‘Vespertine’ Teaser Page: 456
About the Author Page: 456
Copyright Page: 456
Description: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…you’ll 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 Austermeer’s 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 library’s 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 she’s 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.
