The Black Bird Oracle

Diana Bishop journeys to the darkest places within herself and her family history in the highly anticipated fifth novel of the beloved Number One Sunday Times bestselling All Souls series.The first shadows fall on a Friday afternoon when a single, dying raven lands on the pavement in front of Diana Bishop, harbinger of an invitation that reads, Its time you came home, Diana. Diana is a witch and scholar; her husband Matthew Clairmont, a vampire. Their intense love for one another awoke the dark powers within her and dissolved the Covenant between the three species Witch, Daemon and Vampire that live alongside humans. Now, the governing Congregation has decided it must test the magical powers of their seven-year-old twins, Pip and Becca. Concerned with their safety, Diana decides to forge a different path for her familys future and travels to Ravenswood, the Proctor family home.There, Diana begins a new era, becoming her great aunt Gwyneths pupil in higher magic. Its time to confront her familys past and her own, inescapable desire for greater power.Number One bestselling author Deborah Harkness returns to her beloved All Souls world with a triumphant novel that sweeps back to the Salem Panic and illuminates Dianas family history in new and thrilling ways.