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I never wanted to disappear more than while around my family. Briar Lane, the girl only useful for one thing: my surname. A business handshake and pawn to be traded. My father's chess piece shuffled between empires. That was my life back in L.A., but all it took was finding the dirty secret stuffed in a jacket pocket, and my entire world unraveled.

Nothing says “home sweet home” like an old abandoned mental hospital. That’s where I live, not because I’m crazy, but because I’m crazy. I love death, sex, and everything psychotic and horrific. I’m Chasidy Virgin, and despite the name, I am definitely no virgin. The only belts around are the ones I use to bind the hands and feet of my victims. There is nothing I love more than killing a serial killer. I get off taking their lives, and it gives me a good reason to taunt Special Agent Donavan Finch: the sexiest man I have ever seen.

The night I gave in to Kallum Locke, I sold my soul to the devil. Now that devil has returned for me, a daemon is siphoning off whatever soul I have left. The Harbinger killer has descended on Hollow’s Row amid an active case, where I’ve been hired as a consultant to profile two killers. One offering gruesome sacrifices to obtain an ancient philosophy, and the other a bad omen from my past.

Picking up from A Discovery of Witches' cliff-hanger ending, Shadow of Night takes reluctant witch Diana Bishop and vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont on a trip through time to Elizabethan London, where they are plunged into a world of spies, magic, and a coterie of Matthew's old friends, the School of Night. As the search for Ashmole 782—the lost and enchanted manuscript whose mystery first pulled Diana and Matthew into one another's orbit—deepens and Diana seeks out a witch to tutor her in magic, the net of Matthew's past tightens around them.