Some doors open only once.
At Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children, lost travelers gather. Children who found other worlds and were sent back. Fairyland, underworlds, places of darkness and light. Now they’re stuck in the ordinary, longing for a return they may never find.
Nancy remembers her world of stillness and shadows. But her return to reality comes with questions, and when a body turns up at the school, her longing for home becomes tangled with fear.
Surrounded by others who carry their own strange scars, Nancy must unravel a mystery where fantasy and reality blur, and belonging feels like a distant dream.
Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards, Every Heart a Doorway is a dark, lyrical portal fantasy about where we go and what we leave behind.
