In a world where sorcery rules from the shadows, young women adept in magical arts train at a mysterious academy. These budding witches diligently study, driven by generations of resentment after witch hunts decimated their kind long ago. Star student Alice has always strived to live up to the great expectations placed upon her, but her world is turned upside down when Mari, an inept recruit, enters the school...and her heart!

A witch must empty her heart if she hopes to keep her magic, for to feel love is to be no witch at all...Alice fears her grandmother’s warning from many years ago is coming true. After being stranded in Mari’s old human neighborhood, Alice must confront her growing affection and decide—will she lose her witch’s power forever, or destroy the one thing she’s ever actually wanted?

Forcefully separated from Alice, Mari learns the truth about a witch’s power—and what it takes to lose it. Startled, she realizes the depth of emotions in Alice’s open heart…as well as her own! But when a sudden betrayal unravels the witches’ grand plan and plunges them all into danger, is their love strong enough to surpass the end of the world?

In a world where magic rules from the shadows, a mysterious academy trains young witches on a path of revenge against those who have used them only as tools. Alice, a magical prodigy, has lived her whole life with this goal in mind only to have her world turned upside down when Mari, a magicless human, enters the school and her heart.

Book one of the New York Times bestselling All Souls series, from the author of The Black Bird Oracle. “A wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy with all the magic of Harry Potter and Twilight” (People). Look for the hit series “A Discovery of Witches,” now streaming on AMC+, Sundance Now, and Shudder! Deborah Harkness’s sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches, has brought her into the spotlight and galvanized fans around the world. In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and a descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782, deep in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont. Harkness has created a universe to rival those of Anne Rice, Diana Gabaldon, and Elizabeth Kostova, and she adds a scholar's depth to this riveting tale of magic and suspense. The story continues in book two, Shadow of Night, book three, The Book of Life, and the fourth in the series, Time’s Convert.

A witch must fill her heart with hate if she hopes to keep her magic, for awitch with love in her heart is no witch at all... Magical prodigy Alice feelsherself softening toward her human classmate, Mari, and must face the terribledecision to either lose her magic forever, or destroy the thing she's actuallycome to care about.

A TOUCH OF MAGIC In a world where everyone takes wonders like magic spells and dragons for granted, Coco is a girl with a simple dream: She wants to be a witch. But everybody knows magicians are born, not made, and Coco was not born with a gift for magic. Resigned to her un-magical life, Coco is about to give up on her dream to become a witch…until the day she meets Qifrey, a mysterious, traveling magician. After secretly seeing Qifrey perform magic in a way she’s never seen before, Coco soon learns what everybody “knows” might not be the truth, and discovers that her magical dream may not be as far away as it may seem…