The Book That Wouldn’t Burn

Two strangers find themselves connected by a vast and mysterious library containing many wonders and still more secrets,in this powerfully moving first book in a new series from the international bestselling author of Red Sister and Prince of Thorns. The boy has lived his whole life trapped within a book-choked chamber older than empires and larger than cities. The girl has been plucked from the outskirts of civilization to be trained as a librarianstudying the mysteries of the great library at the heart of her kingdom. They were never supposed to meet. But in the librarythey did. Their stories spiral around each otheracross worlds and time. This is a tale of truth and lies and heartsand the blurring of one into another. A journey on which knowledge erodes certainty and on whichthough the pen may be mightier than the swordblood will be spilled and cities burned.