The Book of Love

　　在超自然的權力鬥爭中，被當作棋子的四名青少年
 
　　某天深夜裡，蘿拉、丹尼爾和小莫發現他們置身在高中教室裡，問題是他們已經從家鄉消失了整整一年，早已被判定死亡—事實上，他們死而復生。與他們同時出現在教室裡的，除了一個陌生人物，還有他們高中時期一個行事低調的音樂老師。老師似乎知道這四人的死因和復活關鍵，他提出條件：他們必須執行一系列的神祕任務，雖然可以返家，卻不能和任何人透漏他們起死回生的這件事。如果他們能在一週內破解這整起事件的謎團，將有兩人可以留在人間。
 
　　為了重返人世的機會，這群少年答應了老師的條件，但是這起復活事件引來其他超自然人物的注意，也為鎮上帶來混亂與危機。他們必須找出自己的死因，才能阻止迫在眉睫的災難。(文／博客來外文館)

　　NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In the long-awaited first novel from short story virtuoso and Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link, three teenagers become pawns in a supernatural power struggle.
 
　　“A heart-wrenching exploration of love and loss.”—Time
 
　　"A dreamlike, profoundly beautiful novel [that] pushes our understanding of what a fantasy novel can be.”—Amal El-Mohtar, The New York Times Book Review
 
　　The Book of Love showcases Kelly Link at the height of her powers, channeling potent magic and attuned to all varieties of love—from friendship to romance to abiding family ties—with her trademark compassion, wit, and literary derring-do. Readers will find joy (and a little terror) and an affirmation that love goes on, even when we cannot.
 
　　Late one night, Laura, Daniel, and Mo find themselves beneath the fluorescent lights of a high school classroom, almost a year after disappearing from their hometown, the small seaside community of Lovesend, Massachusetts, having long been presumed dead. Which, in fact, they are.
 
　　With them in the room is their previously unremarkable high school music teacher, who seems to know something about their disappearance—and what has brought them back again. Desperate to reclaim their lives, the three agree to the terms of the bargain their music teacher proposes. They will be given a series of magical tasks; while they undertake them, they may return to their families and friends, but they can tell no one where they’ve been. In the end, there will be winners and there will be losers.
 
　　But their resurrection has attracted the notice of other supernatural figures, all with their own agendas. As Laura, Daniel, and Mo grapple with the pieces of the lives they left behind, and Laura’s sister, Susannah, attempts to reconcile what she remembers with what she fears, these mysterious others begin to arrive, engulfing their community in danger and chaos, and it becomes imperative that the teens solve the mystery of their deaths to avert a looming disaster.
 
　　Welcome to Kelly Link’s incomparable Lovesend, where you’ll encounter love and loss, laughter and dread, magic and karaoke, and some really good pizza.