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  • Published: 6 July 2023
  • ISBN: 9781529160468
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $29.99

Ink Blood Sister Scribe




A spellbinding, edge-of your seat thriller, INK BLOOD SISTER SCRIBE follows a family tasked with guarding a trove of magical but deadly books, and the shadowy organisation that will do anything to get them back . . . even murder.

SOME BOOKS SHOULD NEVER BE OPENED.

For generations, the Kalotay family has guarded a collection of rare and dangerous books. Books that let a person walk through walls, or borrow someone else's face; books of magic.

Now, Joanna Kalotay lives alone in the woods of Vermont, their library's sole protector, while her estranged older half-sister, Esther moves between countries and jobs, constantly changing, never staying anywhere for longer than a year, desperate to avoid the dangerous magic that killed her own mother. She is currently working as an electrician on a research base in Antarctica where she has found love. Maybe, finally, she feels free.

But when someone on-base begins using magic, Esther realizes that she can't outrun her family's legacy. The long-separated sisters must work together to unravel the secrets their parents kept hidden, secrets that span centuries and continents, and even other libraries...

  • Published: 6 July 2023
  • ISBN: 9781529160468
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $29.99

About the author

Emma Törzs

Emma Törzs is a writer and teacher in Minneapolis, MN.

Her fiction has been honoured with a NEA Fellowship in Prose, a World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction, and an O. Henry Prize. Her work has been published in journals such as Ploughshares, the Missouri Review, Uncanny Magazine, Strange Horizons and American Short Fiction. She received her MFA from the University of Montana, Missoula, and is an enthusiastic member of the Clarion West class of 2017.

Ink Blood Sister Scribe is her first novel.

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