The Book of Love: A Novel

The Book of Love by Kelly Link is a supernatural coming-of-age fantasy about three teenagers—Laura, Daniel, and Mo—who mysteriously return from the dead nearly a year after disappearing from their seaside hometown of Lovesend, Massachusetts.

They awaken in their high school classroom under the guidance of their seemingly ordinary music teacher, who reveals that he knows the truth about their deaths and offers them a strange bargain: they will perform a series of magical tasks to earn back their lives. While completing these tasks, they can return home—but must tell no one where they’ve been.

As the teens struggle to reconnect with their families and confront their pasts, their resurrection draws the attention of other supernatural beings, each with hidden motives. Meanwhile, Laura’s sister, Susannah, tries to understand the impossible truth behind her sister’s return.

As magic, danger, and chaos engulf their town, the teens must uncover the mystery of their deaths before a greater disaster strikes. Blending fantasy, horror, and heartfelt emotion, the novel explores the many forms of **love—romantic, familial, and platonic—**and how it endures even beyond death, all within Kelly Link’s darkly whimsical and haunting world of Lovesend.