The half breath before she put a name, again, to what wasn’t there had felt-each time-stretched and strained.īut her shadow wasn’t her only loss. The first few days there had been a constant sense that something was missing. It had been strange, at first, the absence. In that time, she had grown accustomed to the lack of her shadow.

Since she had asked Verenice Tenebrae to cut it from her body so she could sacrifice it to keep magic in the world.

It had been just over seven weeks-fifty-three days, exactly-since Sydney had given up her shadow in the final challenge of the Turning. The light in the apartment drew grey veils from the coffee cup, empty, on the counter, the chair in which the woman sat, the small white candle in front of her. The woman sitting at the table cast no shadow. World Fantasy Award finalist Kat Howard has written a sequel that asks how you have a happily ever in a world that doesn’t want it, where the cost of that happiness may be too much to bear. She is forced to decide what she will give up and what she will lose and whether what must be destroyed is not only the House of Shadows, but the Unseen World itself. Determined to keep the House of Shadows from returning to power and to defeat the magicians who want nothing more than to have it back, Sydney turns to extremes in a desperate attempt to regain her sacrificed magic. The magic of the Unseen World is acting strangely, faltering, bleeding out from the edges. All of the sacrifices, all of the magicians who died in Shadows, they’re buried beneath the foundations. Unfortunately, she needs to do this quickly: the House of Shadows, the hell on earth that shaped her into who she was, the place she sacrificed everything to destroy, is rebuilding itself. Feeling estranged from herself, she is determined to find a way back to her status as one of the world’s most dangerous magicians. Return to Kat Howard’s Alex Award–winning world begun in An Unkindness of Magicians, a secret society of power-hungry magicians in New York City.Īfter taking down the source of the corruption of the Unseen World, Sydney is left with almost no magical ability.

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