A DARKER SHADE

<p><b style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i>A Darker Shade of Magic</i>, from #1&nbsp;<i>New York Times&nbsp;</i>bestselling author V.E. Schwab</b><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Kell is one of the last Antari</span><b style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">—</b><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel Londons; Red, Grey, White, and, once upon a time, Black.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Kell was raised in Arnes</span><b style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">—</b><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Red London</span><b style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">—</b><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and officially serves the Maresh Empire as an ambassador, traveling between the frequent bloody regime changes in White London and the court of George III in the dullest of Londons, the one without any magic left to see.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Unofficially, Kell is a smuggler, servicing people willing to pay for even the smallest glimpses of a world they'll never see. It's a defiant hobby with dangerous consequences, which Kell is now seeing firsthand.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">After an exchange goes awry, Kell escapes to Grey London and runs into Delilah Bard, a cut-purse with lofty aspirations. She first robs him, then saves him from a deadly enemy, and finally forces Kell to spirit her to another world for a proper adventure.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Now perilous magic is afoot, and treachery lurks at every turn. To save all of the worlds, they'll first need to stay alive.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i>"A Darker Shade of Magic&nbsp;</i>has all the hallmarks of a classic work of fantasy. Schwab has given us a gem of a tale...This is a book to treasure."—Deborah Harkeness,&nbsp;<i>New York Times&nbsp;</i>bestselling author of the All Souls trilogy</b><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Shades of Magic series</b><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">1.&nbsp;</span><i style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A Darker Shade of Magic</i><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">2.&nbsp;</span><i style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A Gathering of Shadows</i><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">3.</span><i style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">&nbsp;A Conjuring of Light</i><br></p>