The second volume in the ground-breaking Library Trilogy following THE BOOK THAT WOULDN'T
BURN. We fight for the people we love. We fight for the ideas we want to be true. Evar and
Livira stand side by side and yet far beyond each other's reach. Evar is forced to flee the
library driven before an implacable foe. Livira trapped in a ghost world has to recover her
book if she's to return to her life. While Evar's journey leads him outside into the vastness
of a world he's never seen Livira's destination lies deep inside her own writing where she
must wrestle with her stories in order to reclaim the volume in which they were written. And
all the while the library quietly weaves thread to thread bringing the scattered elements of
Livira's old life - friends and foe alike - back together beneath new skies. Long ago a lie
was told and with the passing years it has grown and spread a small push leading to a chain
of desperate consequences. Now as one edifice topples into the next with ever-growing violence
it threatens to break the world. The secret war that defines the library has chosen its
champions and set them on the board. The time has come when they must fight for what they
believe or lose everything. The Library Trilogy is about many things: adventure discovery
and romance but it's also a love letter to books and the places where they live. The focus is
on one vast and timeless library but the love expands to encompass smaller more personal
collections and bookshops of all shades too.
