RESISTANCE IS MAGIC “War II meets A Discovery of Witches …I raced through this one.” —Kate
Quinn New York Times bestselling author of The Briar Club “Historical fantasy at its
absolute best.” —Alexis Henderson author of The Year of the Witching and An Academy for Liars
As World War II rages around her a witch abandoned by her coven must journey to find a book of
unspeakable power before it lands in Nazi hands Stubborn plain-spoken and from an
unimpressive family Lydia Polk never expected to be accepted into the Royal Academy of
Witches. Now with Hitler’s army rampaging across Europe the witches of Britain have joined
the war effort and Lydia is key to the cause: she must use her magic to track down magical
relics before Hitler and his sycophants can. When a Nazi witch infiltrates the Academy with
heart-breaking consequences the coven is left shaken exposed and divided. The elder British
witches have no interest in further loss of coven life in service of a government that has
forced them into hiding for decades no matter the consequences to the world. But with the
discovery of the Grimorium Bellum an ancient book that leaves a trail of death and destruction
wherever it goes Lydia knows her mission has never been more urgent. Alone and woefully
outnumbered Lydia makes her way to the heart of occupied France where she finds allies in
Rebecca Gagne—a fierce French resistance fighter chockful of secrets—and Henry Boudreaux—a
handsome Haitian-American art historian with a little magic of his own. Together they traverse
the country stalked by the natural and supernatural alike in search of the grimoire. But as
Lydia soon discovers finding the book is only half the battle—the Grimorium Bellum has a dark
agenda all its own. Lydia must subdue it before the Witches of the Third Reich can use it—but
she’ll have to survive the book herself first.
