Length12h 31m
About this audiobook
In London, Vivian drives her ambulance through the burning streets, tending to the wounded and dying with a steadiness her colleagues mistake for courage. It is not courage. It is duty - the only language she has ever been taught to speak.
In Oxford, Dame Beryl stands alone in the cupola of the Radcliffe Camera and holds the magical defenses of the British Isles together by sheer force of will. Her body is failing. Her grief is vast. She has given everything to the protection of her country and her people, and she will give whatever remains.
These two women have circled each other for years - mentor and heir, guardian and charge, each convinced that love and duty cannot coexist. But when a long-buried secret surfaces from the night that made Vivian an orphan, everything either woman believes about herself, about the other, and about the nature of magic begins to fracture.
Audiobook details
GenreHistorical Fiction, Fantasy
Length12 hrs 31 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateSep 1, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Author’s Note
2No Title
3Dedication
4No Title
5Bethnal Green, The East End of London
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6Carmarthen Hall, Oxford
7The Hospital of St. Denis, The East End of London
8Bethnal Green, The East End of London
9Carmarthen Hall, Oxford
10Carmarthen Hall, Oxford
11Bethnal Green, The East End of London
12Carmarthen Hall, Oxford
13Carmarthen Hall, Oxford
14The Village of Little Danethorpe, Norfolk
15Carmarthen Hall, Oxford
16The Village of Little Danethorpe, Norfolk
17Carmarthen Hall, Oxford
18Oldham Green, The East End of London
19Oldham Green, The East End of London
20Carmarthen Hall, Oxford
21Dulac House, The City of London
22Carmarthen Hall, Oxford
23Dulac House, The City of London
24Christ Church Meadow, Oxford
25Dulac House, The City of London
26The Chapter House Tower, Carmarthen Hall, Oxford
27Dulac House, The City of London
28Dulac House, The City of London
29Carmarthen Hall, Oxford
30Dulac House, The City of London
31Dulac House, The City of London
32Nageli Court, The City of London
33Deep Beneath Carmarthen Hall, Oxford
34Deep Beneath Carmarthen Hall, Oxford
35The Randolph Hotel, Oxford
36Carmarthen Hall, Oxford
37Carmarthen Hall, Oxford
38Carmarthen Hall, Oxford
39Somewhere Else Altogether
40The Radcliffe Camera, Oxford
41The Broad and Catte Street, Oxford
42The Skies Above Oxford
43The Radcliffe Camera, Oxford
44Carmarthen Hall, Oxford
45Carmarthen Hall, Oxford
46Acknowledgements
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