Eagerly awaited by fans around the world, The Book of Life brings the magic and suspense of the All Souls Trilogy to a deeply satisfying conclusion. What secret is encoded in the mysterious book called Ashmole 782 and why has it been chased through the centuries by daemons, vampires, and witches? How can spellbound witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont fulfill their love and their mission, on contested ground and with the weight of their very different histories pulling them apart? Here the couple time travels back from Elizabethan London to make a dramatic return to the present, facing new crises and old enemies as the search for the missing pages from Ashmole 782 takes on even more urgency In palatial homes and university laboratories, using ancient knowledge and modern science, from the hills of the Auvergne to Venice and beyond, Diana and Matthew at last learn what the witches discovered so many centuries ago. About the author: Deborah Harkness is the number one New York Times bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches and Shadow of Night, the first two volumes in her All Souls Trilogy. A professor of history at the University of Southern California, Harkness has received Fulbright, Guggenheim, and National Humanities Center fellowships.