The Library of Fates - by Margot Harrison (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

When its librarian keeper mysteriously dies, two former classmates must race to locate a rare book from their college years that can foretell your future if you confess a secret from your past--but someone is intent on protecting what's hidden inside.

It can write the story of your future... and hide the secrets of your past

The Library of Fates was designed to show you who you are--and who you could become. Its rarest book, The Book of Dark Nights, holds a secret: when you write an intimate confession on its pages, you'll receive a prediction for your future, penned in your own handwriting.

For Eleanor, whose childhood was defined by a senseless tragedy, the library offers a world where everything makes sense. She's spent most of her life there as an apprentice to the brilliant librarian, showing other people how to find the meaning of their lives in stories.

But when her mentor dies in a freak accident and The Book of Dark Nights goes missing--along with the secrets written inside--Eleanor is pulled out of the library and into a quest to locate it with the last person she expects: the librarian's estranged son, Daniel, who Eleanor once loved.

Together, as they hunt down clues from Harvard to Paris, Eleanor and Daniel grow closer again, regaining each other's trust. But little do they know that they're entangled in a much larger web. Someone else wants the book, and they'll go to dark lengths to get it...

Review Quotes

"The Midnight Club is a strange, riveting, brilliant fable about smart people seduced by the darkest, most forbidden fantasy. Like a fever-dream of Donna Tartt's The Secret History."
--Lev Grossman, New York Times bestselling author of The Magicians

"I devoured The Midnight Club. It's a smart, surprising, and gripping mystery about the reality that we can't change who we were back in college, but we'd all be a lot better off if we could. And, for the characters in this fine novel, one of them might even still be alive."
--Chris Bohjalian, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant

"[A] taut and introspective time-travel thriller.... This deserves to be savored."
--Publishers Weekly

"When old college friends gather, the past comes, too. Savvy, suspenseful, and surprisingly tender, Margot Harrison's The Midnight Club takes the classic murder-reunion trope and transforms it into a reflection on friendship and surviving our youth. With each twist, this marvelously inventive novel will keep you guessing whodunnit--but also who couldn't stop it, and why."
--Maria Hummel, author of Still Lives

"Eerie and suspenseful, but fundamentally a poignant look at grief, regret, and friendship."
--Bustle

"The Secret History meets Black Mirror in Margot Harrison's richly imagined, time-traveling debut. A nostalgia-soaked campus novel about second and even third chances, The Midnight Club asks the question: what price is too high to undo your greatest mistake? The perfect read for spooky season!"
--Alison B. Hart, author of The Work Wife

"The Midnight Club by Margot Harrison keeps you on the edge of your seat from start to finish. With secrets unraveling and danger lurking, this mystery explores life, death, and the bonds that form in the darkest of times. Equal parts eerie and emotional, this book will have you hooked the entire time."
--The Betches