Elodie and the Dark Lord

To save her brother, a magicless librarian must infiltrate a magical academy and trust a Dark Lord, in the first novel in a spellbinding new fantasy duology from the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Year Slip.

Elodie Kess is a librarian in a quiet seaside town on the far reaches of the kingdom. It’s not adventure and whirlwind romance, but as a scholar of magic with a strange affliction that deadens spells upon her touch, reading about it is the closest she can get.

Her unremark...