The long-awaited new novel from multi bestselling Garth Nix set in the Old Kingdom now in
paperback! For fans of Sarah J. Maas and Leigh Bardugo. In a land where the dead will not stay
dead eighteen-year-old orphan Terciel is learning to wield a mighty and terrible power:
necromancy. For he is the Abhorsen-in-Waiting the latest in a ancient line of necromancers
tasked with protecting the Old Kingdom and preventing the Dead from crossing over to the realm
of the living. Across the Wall in Ancelstierre where magic does not usually work Elinor
nineteen lives a secluded life. But when destiny intervenes she finds herself on a path to
love danger and an adventure into the dominion of the dead... She does not know that she is
deeply connected to the Old Kingdom until destiny places her on a path of magic romance and a
fight against the Dead who will not stay dead.
