When another figure from her past appears, begging for help, Irene has to take a good hard look at her priorities.

Meanwhile, Irene’s old friend Vale has been damaged by exposure to Chaotic forces and she has no idea how to save him. A nightmare figure bent on the Library’s destruction, Alberich gives Irene a tainted ‘join me or die’ job offer. However, such plans rarely survive first contact with the enemy – particularly when the enemy is the traitor Alberich. She and Kai are tasked with a mission to St Petersburg’s Winter Palace, to retrieve a book which will help restore order. Gates back to the Library are malfunctioning across a multitude of worlds, creating general havoc. And after fleeing a version of Revolutionary France astride a dragon (also known as her assistant, Kai), Irene soon discovers she’s not the only one affected. But when the gateway back to your headquarters dramatically malfunctions, one must improvise. Standards that absolutely do not include making hasty, unplanned escapes through a burning besieged building. Librarian spy Irene has professional standards to maintain. Here Irene will be forced to blackmail, fast talk, and fight.

Irene’s mission to save Kai and avert Armageddon will take her to a dark, alternate Venice where it’s always Carnival.

With this act of aggression, the fae are determined to trigger a war between their people – and the forces of order and chaos themselves. Kai’s dragon heritage means he has powerful allies, but also powerful enemies in the form of the fae. She discovers he’s been kidnapped by the fae faction and the repercussions could be fatal. Librarian-spy Irene is working undercover in an alternative London when her assistant Kai goes missing. Yet failure is not an option – the nature of reality itself is at stake. Soon, she’s up to her eyebrows in a heady mix of danger, clues and secret societies. Irene’s new assistant is also hiding secrets of his own. London’s underground factions seem prepared to fight to the very death to find her book.Īdding to the jeopardy, this world is chaos-infested – the laws of nature bent to allow supernatural creatures and unpredictable magic. But when they arrive, it’s already been stolen. Their mission – to retrieve a dangerous book. And along with her enigmatic assistant Kai, she’s posted to an alternative London. Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, which harvests fiction from different realities.

The invisible library books