Good thing the student body is well-acquainted with quests.Ī tale of friendship, baking, and derring-do. And in a world without magic, she doesn’t have long before Reality notices her existence and washes her away. If she can't find a way to restore her mother, Rini will never have been born. But Rini can’t let Reality get in the way of her quest-not when she has an entire world to save! (Much more common than one would suppose.) When Rini lands with a literal splash in the pond behind Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children, the last thing she expects to find is that her mother, Sumi, died years before Rini was even conceived. In the game of storms of razors, not everybody gets a happy ending.ĭown Among the Sticks and Bones was released by Tor.com Publishing in June 2017. They were twelve when they walked down the impossible staircase and discovered that the pretense of love can never be enough to prepare you for a land filled with mad scientists and death and choices. Jacqueline and Jillian were five when they learned that grown-ups can't be trusted. This is the story of what happened first. Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they were packed off to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children. Darkness lurks around each corner, and when tragedy strikes, it's up to Nancy and her new schoolmates to get to the heart of things.no matter what it costs.Įvery Heart a Doorway was released by Tor.com Publishing in April 2016. Nancy tumbled once, but now she's back, and enrolled at Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children.

EVERY HEART A DOORWAYĬhildren have always disappeared under the right conditions slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere.else.īut magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children. There's a school where these wayward children go, when they find themselves back in homes that will never understand them. When is a door a lie? When it opens again and you find yourself right back where you started.only now suddenly, brutally aware of how much you're missing. When it is the conduit to everything you need to be happy.

When is a door not a door? When it's a gateway to adventure: when it's the portal that leads you from a world where you never quite fit in to the place where you've always belonged, where you've always wanted to be.

Every heart a doorway by seanan mcguire