num_pages: 320
description: A rich portrait of post-Victorian England The Deepest Night seamlessly blends thrilling romance with riveting history and adventureperfect for fans of Libba Bray and Lauren Kate.Its 1915 and sixteen-year-old Lora Jones is finishing up her first year as a charity student at Iverson a prestigious gothic boarding school on Englands southern coast. While shes always felt different from everyone around her now she finally knows why: She is a drkon a rare enchanted being with astonishing magical abilities. As war hits Britains shores and Lora reels from an unimaginable loss she finds that her powers come with grave and dangerous responsibilities. At the request of Armand Louis the darkly mysterious boy whose father owns Iverson Lora will spend her summer at his lavish estate. To help the war effortand to keep Lora by his sideArmand turns his home into a military hospital where Lora will serve as a nurse. For Armand is inescapably drawn to herbound to her by heart-deep secrets and a supernatural connection that runs thicker than blood. Yet while Lora tries to sort out her own feelings toward Armand fate offers an unexpected surprise. Lora discovers there is another drkon a prisoner of war being held in Germany. And that only she with her newly honed Gifts will be able to rescue him. With Armand Lora will cross enemy lines on an incredible missionone that could bond her to Armand forever or irrevocably tear them apart. Beautifully written deeply romantic and filled with daring adventure and magic The Deepest Night is a mesmerizing novel of the enduring pull of destiny and the eternal strength of love.
language: English
title: The Deepest Night
publisher: Bantam