The All Souls Trilogy

Seriously one of my favorite writers right now: Deborah Harkness!

I really love these books because she seamlessly inserts the supernatural into the modern world and history without shoving it down our throats.  (Please remember that while there are elements of history here, this is still a work of fiction!)

Yes, these characters are supernatural, and yes, that is what the story is about, but don't start freaking out because you think it is "Twilight with Witches."  It isn't.

In Discovery of Witches, the first book in the All Souls Trilogy, Harkness introduces us to a witch who would rather forget her family history, so she stifles her witchy-ness and dives into her work.  Diana Bishop is a scholar who, during the course of research, pulls a manuscript from the belly of Oxford's Bodleian Library and starts a chain reaction she isn't ready for.  At the same time, she draws the eye of every other creature in her vicinity, (and by creature I mean: witches, daemons, and vampires), most especially a 1500 year old vampire named Matthew Clairmont.  These two creatures become locked in a complicated pas de deux while they try to figure out how to save the past and the future with the entire creature world watching, and trying to stop them.

I feel like telling you about Shadow of Night might ruin some of the intrigue of Discovery of Witches, so I will leave you with the notion that the interwoven lives of Diana and Matthew are further complicated and stressed by the events in this book.  Shadow opens a whole new world to the reader, as well as Diana, and sits us comfortably within that world while we watch our new favorite power couple battle those who go against the idea of knowledge and understanding, and how that knowledge might save them.

If you want to know more, you can go to:  http://deborahharkness.com/discovery-of-witches/