A Discovery of Witches introduced Diana Bishop, Oxford scholar and reluctant witch, and vampire geneticist Matthew Claimont. Drawn to each other despite long-standing taboos, these two otherworldly beings found themselves at the center of a battle for a lost, enchanted manuscript known as Ashmole 782.áBook two of the All Souls trilogy plunges Diana and Matthew into Elizabethan London, a world of spies and subterfuge, and a coterie of Matthew´s old friends, the mysterious School of Night. The pair´s mission is to find traces of Ashmole 782, but as the net of Matthew´s past tightens around them they embark on a very different -and vastly more dangerous- journey.