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Isobel is an artistic prodigy with a dangerous set of clients: the immortal fair folk. Yet when she receives her first royal patron—Rook, a fairy prince—she makes a terrible mistake. She paints mortal sorrow in his eyes—a weakness that could cost him his life. Furious, Rook escorts Isabel to his kingdom to stand trial for her crime, but their journey is full of danger. Forced to depend on each other for survival, will their alliance blossom into something more? After all, love violates the fair folks’ ruthless laws...but are some matters worth the risk?

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, if provoked, 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, she finds herself entangled in a centuries-old conspiracy.

Artemisia is training to be a Gray Sister, tasked with cleansing the bodies of the dead so that their souls can pass on; otherwise, they will rise as spirits with a hunger for the living. When her convent is attacked, Artemisia defends it by awakening a revenant. Wielding this ancient spirit’s extraordinary power almost consumes her–but only a vespertine, a priestess trained to wield a revenant, has any chance of saving Loraille.

Elisabeth creció en una de las bibliotecas mágicas de Austermeer, pero ahora vive en casa de Nathaniel... y bajo la atenta mirada de los periodistas, ávidos de cotilleos sobre el hechicero más poderoso de la ciudad y la bibliotecaria que le ha robado el corazón. Que la enorme finca esté llena de secretos no es una sorpresa.

Todo el mundo sabe que los elfos son tan arrogantes como inmortales y por eso les gusta que se los retrate. Además, ansían el arte de los humanos porque ellos son incapaces de crear algo que transmita vida. Isobel los conoce bien, pues se gana la vida pintando sus rostros.

Desde que la abandonaron de niña en una de las bibliotecas mágicas de Austermeer, Elisabeth ha crecido entre grimorios que susurran en los estantes y que, ante la menor provocación, se transforman en monstruos de tinta y cuero.

Artemisias einziges Ziel im Leben ist es, eine Graue Schwester zu werden. Diese Nonnen sorgen dafür, dass die Seelen der Verstorbenen ins Jenseits übergehen können. Als ihr Konvent von einer Armee besessener Soldaten angegriffen wird, erweckt Artemisia ausversehen den uralten und bösartigen Geist eines Revenanten, was sie fast umbringt. Zugleich hat der Tod in Loraille Einzug gehalten und nur eine Vespertine hat eine Chance ihn aufzuhalten.