She gets by doing odd jobs for her patrons and the naive new money in her town at the edge of the Berkshires. Charlie is a low-level con artist, working as a bartender while trying to distance herself from the powerful and dangerous underground world of shadow trading. Your shadow holds all the parts of you that you want to keep hidden-a second self, standing just to your left, walking behind you into lit rooms. You can alter someone's feelings-and memories-but manipulating shadows has a cost, with the potential to take hours or days from your life. Determined to survive, she’s up against a cast of doppelgängers, mercurial billionaires, gloamists, and the people she loves best in the world - all trying to steal a secret that will allow them control of the shadow world and more.īook of Night was 2022 LibraryReads Top Pick and received a starred review from Indie Next.In Charlie Hall's world, shadows can be altered, for entertainment and cosmetic preferences-but also to increase power and influence. When a terrible figure from her past returns, Charlie descends back into a maelstrom of murder and lies.
Not to mention that her sister Posey is desperate for magic, and that her shadowless and possibly soulless boyfriend has been keeping secrets from her. Bartending at a dive, she’s still entirely too close to the corrupt underbelly of the Berkshires.
Now, she’s trying to distance herself from past mistakes, but going straight isn’t easy. And to rob their fellow magicians, they need Charlie. Gloamists guard their secrets greedily, creating an underground economy of grimoires. She’s spent half her life working for gloamists, magicians who manipulate shadows to peer into locked rooms, strangle people in their beds, or worse. Charlie Hall has never found a lock she couldn’t pick, a book she couldn’t steal, or a bad decision she wouldn’t make.
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