Pre-order now to receive the stunning DELUXE LIMITED EDITION— only available on the first
printing while supplies last! The collector’s hardcover features stenciled edges case effects
and illustrated endpapers. Dante’s Inferno meets Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi in this all-new
dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel
and Yellowface in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell
to save their professor’s soul—perhaps at the cost of their own. Katabasis noun Ancient
Greek: The story of a hero’s descent to the underworld Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to
become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make
that a reality: her pride her health her love life and most definitely her sanity. All to
work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge the greatest magician in the world. That is
until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault. Grimes is now in Hell
and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now
incorporeal hands and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams…. Nor will the
fact that her rival Peter Murdoch has come to the very same conclusion. With nothing but the
tales of Orpheus and Dante to guide them enough chalk to draw the Pentagrams necessary for
their spells and the burning desire to make all the academic trauma mean anything they set
off across Hell to save a man they don’t even like. But Hell is not like the storybooks say
Magick isn’t always the answer and there’s something in Alice and Peter’s past that could
forge them into the perfect allies…or lead to their doom.
