num_pages: 464
description: Cosmically fast-paced and wildly imaginative this debut novel is a perfect potion of magic and suspense Once a city of enormous wealth and culture Prague was home to emperors alchemists astronomers and as its whispered hell portals. When music student Sarah Weston lands a summer job at Prague Castle cataloging Beethovens manuscripts she has no idea how dangerous her life is about to become. Prague is a threshold Sarah is warned and it is steeped in blood. Soon after Sarah arrives strange things begin to happen. She learns that her mentor who was working at the castle may not have committed suicide after all. Could his cryptic notes be warnings? As Sarah parses his clues about Beethovens Immortal Beloved she manages to get arrested to have tantric sex in a public fountain and to discover a time-warping drug. She also catches the attention of a four-hundred-year-old dwarf the handsome Prince Max and a powerful U.S. senator with secrets she will do anything to hide. City of Dark Magic could be called a rom-com paranormal suspense novelor it could simply be called one of the most entertaining novels of the year.
language: English
title: City of Dark Magic
publisher: Penguin Books/Penguin Random House