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Through Gates of Garnet and Gold

Through Gates of Garnet and Gold

FantasyYA Fantasy
Published
2026
Language
English

Synopsis

Nancy once thought she had secured her place forever in the silent, still Halls of the Dead. But when a mysterious darkness begins slaughtering the living statues of her home, she is forced to return to the mortal world to seek help. To save her realm, she must convince her former classmates at Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children to join her on a perilous quest into a land where the dead roam free.

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

DarkTenseAtmospheric
QuestFound FamilyPortal Fantasy

Genres

Fantasy YA Fantasy Young Adult Dark Fantasy

About the author

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Seanan McGuire

Seanan McGuire (born January 5, 1978, in Martinez, California) is an American author of urban fantasy, science fiction and horror. She writes the October Daye and InCryptid urban fantasy series and the Hugo Award-winning Wayward Children series under her own name, science fiction and horror as Mira Grant, and the children's portal fantasy "Up-and-Under" series as A. Deborah Baker. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2010 and has since won multiple Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awa...

Characters

Nancy WhitmanProtagonist
NancyProtagonist

Former student now living in the Halls of the Dead, forced to seek help from old classmates.

SumiSupporting

Former classmate who joins Nancy's quest.

KadeSupporting

Former classmate who joins Nancy's quest.

Colonel ChristopherSupporting

Former classmate who joins Nancy's quest.

All characters in Through Gates of Garnet and Gold