The Book of Life: A Novel (All Souls Trilogy book 3)

3294 Pages·05.335 MB·English

by  Deborah Harkness

ALSO BY DEBORAH
HARKNESS
A Discovery of Witches
Shadow of Night

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PUBLICATION DATA
Harkness, Deborah E.
The book of life : a novel / Deborah
Harkness.
pages cm.—(All souls trilogy; 3)
ISBN 978-0-698-16347-8
1. Witches—Fiction. 2. Women
historians—Fiction. 3. Vampires—
Fiction. 4. Science and magic—Fiction.
5. Time travel—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3608.A7436B66 2014
813'.6—dc23 2014004495
Publisher’s note: This is a work of
fiction. Names, characters, places, and
incidents either are the product of the
author’s imagination or are used
fictitiously, and any resemblance to
actual persons, living or dead,
businesses, companies, events, or
locales is entirely coincidental.
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For Karen, who knows why
Contents
Also by Deborah Harkness
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33