THE WORDS THAT MAKETH MURDER. tom riddle

Artemis Crooks grew up in the hush and shadow of one of the Seven Great Libraries, apprenticed to guard ancient grimoires whose whispers have driven stronger minds to ruin. When she is sent to escort one of the most dangerous tomes in existence to the dungeons of Hogwarts, she expects monsters of ink and curses-never the boy who waits for her there.

Tom Riddle sees through Artemis at once. She is no mere squib, no strange library-foundling, but something rarer, something sleeping, something that should not exist. What begins as fascination turns to obsession, and obsession to something far darker. Torn between duty and desire, wisdom and hunger, Artemis finds herself drawn into the orbit of a brilliant boy who was born to unravel her.

In a world bracing for war, their paths twist together-beautiful, catastrophic, and doomed from the start.

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