CHRISTY AWARD FINALIST âĒ AÂ mysterious manor house hides the keys to shocking family secretsâand rapidly fading portals to other worldsâin the richly woven opener to bestselling author Sarah Arthurâs young adult fantasy series.
âA fresh, delightful new tale for our wonder-hungry era.ââNational Book Award nominee Mitali Perkins
When fourteen-year-old American Eva Joyce unexpectedly finds herself spending the summer at the mysterious manor house of the English grandmother sheâs never met, she soon discovers that her family, the manor staff, and even the house itself are hiding secrets.
With odd things happening in the gardens at night, Eva embarks on a search for answers. Astonishingly, she learns that the Hallâs staff believe portals to other worlds existâthough hidden and steadily disappearingâand that Evaâs grandmother was once a queen in one of those worlds. But her grandmotherâs heart is closed to the beauty and pain of the past. Now itâs up to Eva to discover what really happenedâand to decide if itâs possible that her favorite childhood fairy tales are true. As she starts unraveling the dangerous secrets around the grandmother who is more than she appears, Eva begins to wonder if she, too, is more than she understood herself to be.