A stand-alone fantasy tale from Seanan McGuire's Alex Award-winning Wayward Children series, which began in the Alex, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning, World Fantasy Award finalist, Tiptree Honor List Every Heart a Doorway This fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather study and dream than become a respectable housewife and live up to the expectations of the world around her. As well she should. When she finds a doorway to a world founded on logic and reason, riddles and lies, she thinks she's found her paradise. Alas, everything costs at the goblin market, and when her time there is drawing to a close, she makes the kind of bargain that never plays out well. The Wayward Children Series Book 1: Every Heart a Doorway Book 2: Down Among the Sticks and Bones Book 3: Beneath the Sugar Sky Book 4: In an Absent Dream
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“This is a lovely installment of the series, with pitch-perfect fairy-tale logic…The series as a whole has wonderfully internally consistent world building—and characters, no matter how far in the background, with complexity and depth.”
— Booklist
“Takes the concepts of fairness and common sense and twists them through the doorways of a portal fantasy with an amazing landscape and characters.”
— Library Journal (starred review)“The author beautifully portrays the overwhelming experience of being on the threshold of maturity Choose wisely, and choose this book.”
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Seanan McGuire is the author of the Hugo, Nebula, Alex and Locus Award-winning Wayward Children series, the October Daye series, the InCryptid series, and other works. She also writes darker fiction as Mira Grant. She won the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and in 2013 became the first person to appear five times on the same ballot for the Hugo Award. In 2022, she managed the same feat again.
Cynthia Hopkins is a voice talent and audiobook narrator.