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Book cover of The Book of Doors
The Book of DoorsGareth Brown

Characters in The Book of Doors

8 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

  • Cassie Andrews

    A New York bookshop worker whose quiet life changes when a favourite customer leaves her a strange, powerful book.

Antagonists

  • Hugo Barbary

    A brutal collector who weaponizes the magical books he acquires to dominate and torment others.

Supporting characters

  • Drummond Fox

    A guarded man tied to a hidden library of magical books, haunted by the deaths of friends and wary of Cassie's choices.

  • Izzy (The Book of Doors)

    Cassie's best friend, level-headed and cautious, who becomes her sounding board as the danger around the magical book grows.

  • Mr. Webber

    The elderly bookshop customer whose gift of the Book of Doors to Cassie sets the story in motion; his memory remains a deep emotional anchor for her afterward.

  • Lund

    A bodyguard figure who gradually reveals unexpected decency and eventually joins Cassie's side.

  • Azaki

    A stylish owner of a magical book skilled in illusion, operating in morally grey territory but capable of loyalty.

  • Edmund Fox

    Drummond's ancestor and an early builder of the hidden library, representing the original impulse to preserve the magical books.