Her first book, An Enchantment of Ravens, dealt with Faeries and their courts, her second, Sorcery of Thorns, is a Regency populated with magical beings and sentient grimoires and her third, Vespertine, is about religious orders and malevolent spirits that can manifest from the dead. I was excited when her latest novel showed up on Audible and I've been eagerly looking forward to its release.

Her books are very different from each other, yet they're all beautifully written with a vivid cast of well rounded characters and a strong female protagonist. With all knowledge of vespertines lost to time, Artemisia turns to the last remaining expert for help: the revenant itself.Īs she unravels a sinister mystery of saints, secrets, and dark magic, Artemisia discovers that facing this hidden evil might require her to betray everything she believes - if the revenant doesn’t betray her first.Īnother great adventure from Margaret Rogersonįirst off I want to say I'm a big fan of Margaret Rogerson's stories. It is a revenant, a malevolent being whose extraordinary power almost consumes her - but death has come, and only a vespertine, a priestess trained to wield a high relic, has any chance of stopping it. When her convent is attacked by possessed soldiers, Artemisia defends it by awakening an ancient spirit bound to a saint’s relic. She would rather deal with the dead than the living, who whisper about her scarred hands and troubled past. From the New York Times best-selling author of Sorcery of Thorns and An Enchantment of Ravens comes a thrilling, “dark coming-of-age adventure” ( Culturess ) about a teen girl with mythic abilities who must defend her world against restless spirits of the dead.Īrtemisia is training to be a Gray Sister, a nun who cleanses the bodies of the deceased so that their souls can pass on otherwise, they will rise as ravenous, hungry spirits.

Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson