A SLEIGHT OF SHADOWS

SLEIGHT is the direct sequel to one of the most beloved and lauded contemporary fantasy novels, An Unkindness of Magicians.

We return to World Fantasy award-finalist Kat Howard's Alex award-winning world of secret societies of dueling magicians in New York City. Haven taken down the secretive world of Magicians, Sydney is left without power, but determined to find a way back to her status of one of the world's most dangerous practitioners. This time, without the fuel of revenge, built up over years of traumatic abuse by the former heads of the great houses, Sydney is forced to use less savory methods, methods she once found anathema to her former righteous tenets - methods that can lead her down a darker path than she may have intended.


Howard's short fiction has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award, anthologized in best of and annual best of collections, and performed on NPR. She is the author of the critically acclaimed Roses and Rot and the Alex Awardwinning An Unkindness of Magicians. She is also the writer of the Books of Magic series, set in the Sandman Universe. She lives in St. Paul, Minneapolis, and you can find her on twitter at @KatWithSword.