After traveling through time in Shadow of Night, the second book in Deborah Harkness’s enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. At Matthew’s ancestral home at Sept-Tours, they reunite with the cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches—with one significant exception. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when it is, the search for Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on even more urgency. In the trilogy’s final volume, Harkness deepens her themes of power and passion, family and caring, past deeds and their present consequences. In ancestral homes and university laboratories, using ancient knowledge and modern science, from the hills of the Auvergne to the palaces of Venice and beyond, the couple at last learn what the witches discovered so many centuries ago. With more than one million copies sold in the United States and appearing in thirty-eight foreign editions, A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night have landed on all of the major bestseller lists and garnered rave reviews from countless publications. Eagerly awaited by Harkness’s legion of fans, The Book of Life brings this superbly written series to a deeply satisfying close.

繼本系列的第二部作品《Shadow of Night》，擁有史學家及巫師身分的黛安娜和吸血鬼科學家馬修穿越時空回到現代處理危機，面對昔日的敵人。他們在馬修位於 Sept-Tours 的祖厝與第一集《A Discovery of Witches》中的角色重逢，但卻少了其中一位。未來旅途上的威脅至今尚未浮現，倘若威脅來臨，尋找艾許摩爾七八二號及其遺失的篇章將變得更加迫切。本書為此系列最終回，作者更加深她賦予書中的主題──權勢與激情、家庭與關愛、過去做為與現實後果。從古老家族和大學實驗室，結合現代科學與古人智慧，從法國奧弗涅的山丘到威尼斯宮殿，再到更遠的地方，這對夫妻最後得知女巫在數百年前所發現的事物。本系列中的前兩本書在美國銷售破百萬冊，譯成三十八種語言，空降各大銷售榜，屢獲好評。書迷引頸期盼的《The Book of Life》將會為此系列作品帶來精采絕倫的結尾。