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It follows Kit Herondale, Ty Blackthorn and Drusilla Blackthorn from The Dark Artifices series, as they are drawn into the final conflict between the side of demons and the side of angels.

From BBC • Dec. 24, 2025

Artifices A new prince will never disarm his subjects, but will rather arm them, at least in part.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

From a hundred mean and dishonest Artifices employ'd to discredit this Edition, and to cry down its Editor, I have all the Grounds in nature to beware of Attacks.

From Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare by Smith, David Nichol

All Kelirieu's Artifices were at an End, and when he was passionately urg'd by the King, he was at a Loss for any farther Expedient.

From The Amours of Zeokinizul, King of the Kofirans Translated from the Arabic of the famous Traveller Krinelbol by Crébillon, Claude Prosper Jolyot de

Artifices of; retires to Sparta; intrigues of, against Athens; is condemned to death, but escapes; is recalled to Athens; is banished; death of.

From Mosaics of Grecian History by Willson, Marcius