Come Tumbling Down

Some doors lead to candy skies and gentle Nonsense. Jack and Jill's led to the Moors: a bleak, thrilling world of red horizons, monstrous seas, a village in the shadow of a vampire's castle, and the laboratory of the resurrectionist Dr. Bleak. Having found herself and her calling there, Jacqueline never wanted to leave it again.

So when Jack is suddenly delivered back to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children in a state of crisis — something has been done to her that only the maddest of sciences could devise — it's clear that the trouble is far from over. To set things right, Jack's friends at the school will have to do the one thing Eleanor West forbids: mount a quest, cross back into the Moors, and face the Master and the terrible logic of that world head-on.

Picking up the threads of Every Heart a Doorway and Down Among the Sticks and Bones, Seanan McGuire's fifth novella is a fast, gothic, emotionally charged adventure about loyalty, identity, and fighting for the people — and the places — that make us who we are.