Free (Kindle/iTunes/Kobo) A Discovery of Witches [History-Based Urban Fantasy]

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A Discovery of Witches by historian and novelist Deborah Harkness (Wikipedia) is the 1st in her bestselling All Souls trilogy of modern-day urban fantasy with strong historical and romantic elements centred around the discovery by an Oxford historian of a manuscript leading to the revelation of a hidden supernatural world still among us and her place in the upcoming conflict, free courtesy of publisher Headline.

This is a featured freebie selection of the iTunes UK store's Discover A New Author long weekend promo, and the only one to turn up as non-Amazon price-match and in other EU stores, so it looks like it's an official publisher promo freebie for a while, hopefully.

Currently free, probably just through Monday but maybe a bit longer @ Amazon UK, iTunes UK, and Kobo (available to the UK, and also when I spot-checked assorted EU stores like Amazon for Germany and the Netherlands but not iTunes, so YMMV as to where it's actually free in your locale). Price-drop-check linkage for B&N UK if you're feeling optimistic.

There's also a freebie reading guide with behind-the-scenes bonus materials you can currently pre-order, The ALL SOULS Real-time Reading Companion @ B&N UK & Amazon UK.

Unlikely to cross the pond as this exists in a different edition from a different imprint in North America.

And this has been the (late!) selected 3rd (non-repeat) free ebook thread of the day.

Because not only does it get bonus points for having sfnal content and actual historical bits incorporated and being a relatively major modern title in its genre, it's also available via multiple stores in multiple countries (I think), thus making it available to a few more Gentle Readers worldwide.

Enjoy!

Description
Fall under the spell of Diana and Matthew in the stunning first volume of the No.1 internationally bestsellling ALL SOULS trilogy.

A world of witches, daemons and vampires. A manuscript which holds the secrets of their past and the key to their future. Diana and Matthew - the forbidden love at the heart of it.

When historian Diana Bishop opens an alchemical manuscript in the Bodleian Library, it's an unwelcome intrusion of magic into her carefully ordered life. Though Diana is a witch of impeccable lineage, the violent death of her parents while she was still a child convinced her that human fear is more potent than any witchcraft.

Now Diana has unwittingly exposed herself to a world she's kept at bay for years; one of powerful witches, creative, destructive daemons and long-lived vampires. Sensing the significance of Diana's discovery, the creatures gather in Oxford, among them the enigmatic Matthew Clairmont, a vampire genticist.

Diana is inexplicably drawn to Matthew and, in a shadowy world of half-truths and old enmities, ties herself to him without fully understanding the ancient line they are crossing. As they begin to unlock the secrets of the manuscript and their feelings for each other deepen, so the fragile balance of peace unravels...

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Now dropped to free @ B&N UK. Linkage in OP.