A dandelion-grey caseworker with a hearing problem and a suitcase full of regulations is sent to judge whether a six-year-old Antichrist, a wyvern who hoards buttons, and three other “classified anomalies” will, in fact, end the world.
He expects paperwork.
He finds a peach-coloured house that smells of cardamom, a man whose eyes hold the colour of every sea, and the slow, terrifying realisation that the only thing more dangerous than these children is the system that wants them erased.
Linus Baker has spent twenty years inside DICOMY’s beige labyrinth, ticking boxes that turn magical orphans into case numbers. The Department’s manuals insist that power plus youth equals catastrophe, and catastrophe must be pre-emptively filed away. Klune wea...
A dandelion-grey caseworker with a hearing problem and a suitcase full of regulations is sent to judge whether a six-year-old Antichrist, a wyvern who hoards buttons, and three other “classified anomalies” will, in fact, end the world.
He expects paperwork.
He finds a peach-coloured house that smells of cardamom, a man whose eyes hold the colour of every sea, and the slow, terrifying realisation that the only thing more dangerous than these children is the system that wants them erased.
Linus Baker has spent twenty years inside DICOMY’s beige labyrinth, ticking boxes that turn magical orphans into case numbers. The Department’s manuals insist that power plus youth equals catastrophe, and catastrophe must be pre-emptively filed away. Klune wea...
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Cerulean Chronicles
Cerulean Chronicles
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TJ Klune is the #1 New York Times and #1 USA Today bestselling, Lambda Literary Award–winning author of The House in the Cerulean Sea, Under the Whispering Door, In the Lives of Puppets, the Green Creek Series for adults, the Extraordinaries Series for teens, and more. Being quee...
5 books in catalog
TJ Klune is the #1 New York Times and #1 USA Today bestselling, Lambda Literary Award–winning author of The House in the Cerulean Sea, Under the Whispering Door, In the Lives of Puppets, the Green Creek Series for adults, the Extraordinaries Series for teens, and more. Being quee...
