THE LIBRARY OF FATES

When the librarian of the Library of Fates mysteriously dies and the magical book she’s charged with protecting goes missing, it falls to her talented protégé and her estranged son to find it before it’s too late.

The Library of Fates, tucked away in an unassuming building on Harvard’s campus, is far from an ordinary library. Students know that if you walk in and ask for a book to guide you through a difficult time, the librarian will choose a volume that can change your life. This is, in no small part, due to the presence of The Book of Dark Nights, a strange and extremely powerful tome with the ability to show someone who they might become. When Odile Vernet, the keeper of The Library of Fates, abruptly dies, it falls to her young and immensely talented protégé, Eleanor Dennet, to take up the position. Eleanor soon discovers that The Book of Dark Nights, along with all the secrets it holds in its pages, has gone missing, stolen from under everyone’s noses, presumably in the wake of Odile’s death. She soon joins forces with Odile’s estranged—and extremely handsome—son, Daniel, in order to find it. The story is told in chapters alternating between 2019, as Eleanor and Daniel race against time to try to recover The Book of Dark Nights, and 1995, when they first met as Odile’s students and sparks began to fly between them; Harrison’s book checks every box for readers looking for something with a little bit of magic and a little bit of romance. While it contains an entertaining mystery, at heart this is a novel about the power of a good book and how that book can change a person’s life if it’s read at the right moment.

A contemporary tale of magic, books, and love.