Zachary Ezra Rawlins was never supposed to find the book. Hidden in a library’s forgotten corner, its pages tell stories of love, secrets, and impossible places. Then he finds something stranger still—a story from his own childhood, written long before he lived it.
Drawn into a world beneath the earth where books whisper and time folds like paper, Zachary follows symbols that lead to a secret library, a starless sea, and a war between those who protect stories and those who would erase them.
Alongside a fierce guardian and a mysterious stranger, Zachary must decide if he’s a reader, a character, or something else entirely.
Erin Morgenstern weaves a dreamlike tale of fate, love, and the stories that wait behind every locked door.