num_pages: 456
description: All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeers Great Libraries Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcerymagical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. She hopes to become a warden charged with protecting the kingdom from their power.Then an act of sabotage releases the librarys most dangerous grimoire. Elisabeths desperate intervention implicates her in the crime and she is torn from her home to face justice in the capital. With no one to turn to but her sworn enemy the sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn and his mysterious demonic servant she finds herself entangled in a centuries-old conspiracy. Not only could the Great Libraries go up in flames but the world along with them.As her alliance with Nathaniel grows stronger Elisabeth starts to question everything shes been taughtabout sorcerers about the libraries she loves even about herself. For Elisabeth has a power she has never guessed and a future she could never have imagined.
language: English
title: Sorcery of Thorns
publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books