Author of the bestselling The Cruel Prince , Holly Black debuts with a dark and irresistible adult fantasy. In Book of Night , meet con artist Charlie Hall and the unusual world of shadows.
Charlie Hall never met a lock she couldn't pick, a book she couldn't steal, or a bad decision she wouldn't make. Having spent half her life working for shadowcasters, people with magic to manipulate shadows into doing whatever they wanted—peeking into locked rooms, strangling people in their beds, or worse—she learned how to become the perfect thief.
The shadowists guard their mysteries closely, generating an underground market for artifacts and secrets. And to get what they want, they need Charlie Hall, or rather, her skills. But besides knowing better than to get too involved in the shadow world, she's now a new woman. And in this version, she's just a bartender trying to make ends meet.
But freeing herself from her own history isn't so easy. And when a terrifying figure from her past returns, Charlie finds herself in a whirlwind of murder and lies. Her future seems uncertain at best, nonexistent at worst. And if she wants to survive, she'll need to face even the people she loves most in the world—all trying to steal a secret that will grant them vast and terrible power.
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“Holly Black is a master of fantasy with the Midas touch: there is no story she cannot turn into gold.” - V.E. Schwab, bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“A sinister romp, full of danger and shadows, with a sharp heroine and vivid magic.” - Zoraida Córdova, bestselling author of The Inheritance of the Divine Orchid
“[Holly] Black is a master of world-building.” - The New York Times