Diana Bishop, a young scholar and descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript deep in Oxford’s Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she must navigate with a vampire, Matthew Clairmont.This manuscript, Ashmole 782, holds the secrets of their past . . . and the key to their future.
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Автор: Deborah Harkness
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