Cora has returned from the Moors but feels the Drowned Gods whispering to her. They want her back. Feeling too close to open doors at Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children, she asks to be transferred to its sister school. There, students are not searching for their doors or a return to other worlds. They are being taught to fit into this one, to leave all that behind. Seeing how determined Cora is, Eleanor reluctantly lets her go. But Eleanor knows how awful the Whitethorn […]

“Nobody promised me a happy ending. They didn’t even promise me a happy existence.” This volume takes place chronologically shortly after Book One. One day at Eleanor West’s School for Wayward Children, a girl named Rini falls out of the sky and into the turtle pond. She claims she came from Confection, a Nonsense world where her mother was in charge. She came back to our Earth to save her mother, a teenage student at the school. The problem is that her mother died in […]