THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES HARDBACK BESTSELLER Fall under the spel l of Diana and Matthew once more in the stunning climax to their epic tale, foll owing A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES and SHADOW OF NIGHT. A world of witches, daemons an d vampires. A manuscript which holds the secrets of their past and the key to th eir future. Diana and Matthew - the forbidden love at the heart of it. After tra velling through time in SHADOW OF NIGHT, the second book in Deborah Harkness's e nchant-ing series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthe w Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. At Matthew 's ancestral home in France they reunite with their families - with one heart-br eaking exception. But the real threat to their future is yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for the elusive manuscript Ashmole 782 and its missing p ages takes on a terrifying urgency. Using ancient knowl-edge and modern science, from the palaces of Venice and beyond, Diana and Matthew will finally learn wha t the witches discovered so many centuries ago.