The Book of Dust: The Secret Commonwealth

Book of Dust Volume 2
 
The windows between worlds are closed, and Lyra Silvertongue believes the great adventures of her childhood are behind her. Now twenty and studying at St. Sophia’s College, she is trying to live an ordinary life—until violence shatters it once again.

When Pantalaimon witnesses a brutal murder, the dying man presses dangerous secrets into their keeping—secrets that echo with the past and whisper of Dust. As Lyra follows the trail he leaves behind, certainty begins to unravel. Even her own history is thrown into doubt when she uncovers the truth about Malcolm Polstead’s role in delivering her to Jordan College.

Soon Lyra and Malcolm are drawn far from Oxford, traveling across Europe and into the Levant in search of answers: a city haunted by daemons and a desert rumored to conceal the truth of Dust itself. What they discover will test not only their understanding of the world, but their faith in who they are—and in each other.