Shadow of Night

Deborah Harkness sends Diana and Matthew back to Elizabethan London and the result is genuinely immersive—all spies and scholars and centuries of Matthew's complicated past catching up to them at once. This one is dense in the best scholarly way, rich with historical detail and period atmosphere that feels earned rather than decorative. The miscarriage storyline is handled with real weight and will hit hard. Readers who wanted more world after A Discovery of Witches get a whole second world here; just know it moves at its own deliberate pace and rewards patience over speed.