Cette série plonge les lecteurs dans un New York où la magie est presque éteinte et ses praticiens, les Mageus, vivent cachés. Suivez une voleuse talentueuse dotée du pouvoir de manipuler le temps dans son périlleux voyage vers le passé. Sa mission est de récupérer un livre ancien contenant les secrets pour sauver l'avenir. Elle naviguera dans un monde de gangs impitoyables, de sociétés secrètes et de tromperies dangereuses, où rien n'est ce qu'il semble être.
In an alternate version of present-day Manhattan, magic is dying, and Esta, a Mageus with a talent for manipulating time, travels back to 1901 to stop the destruction of a book that can possibly restore magic, but in Old New York, Esta must navigate gangs, secret societies, and her feelings for another magician in order to save the future of magic
In this spellbinding sequel to the bestselling The Last Magician, Esta and Harte set off on a cross-country chase through time to steal back the elemental stones they need to save the future of magic.
Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows meets Alexandra Bracken's Passenger in this spellbinding conclusion the "vivid and compelling" (BCCB), New York Times bestselling Last Magician series. Evade the Serpent. Heed the Curse. Rewrite the Present. Esta isn't a stranger to high-stakes heists. She's a seasoned thief who has no reservations about using her affinity for time to give her an edge, and she's trained her whole life for one mission: travel back to 1902 New York, steal the ancient Book of Mysteries, and use its power to destroy the Brink and free the Mageus from the Order's control. But the Book held a danger that no one anticipated--Seshat, an angry goddess was trapped within its pages. Now that terrible power lives within Harte, and if given the chance, Seshat will use Esta to destroy the world and take her revenge. Only Esta and Harte stand in her way. Yet in their search to recover the elemental stones needed to bind Seshat's power, Esta and Harte have found themselves stranded in time with a continent between them. As Esta fights to get back to Harte, the Order is no longer the only obstacle standing in her way. Saving Harte--and magic itself--will put even Esta's skills to the test. And all the while, another danger grows, one more terrible than both Seshat and the Order combined...