Paige Griffin has never belonged. Passed from orphanage to orphanage, she has learned to guard her heart, to expect nothing, to disappear. When she arrives at Sunclere Academy, she steps into a world unlike any she has ever known—a place where staircases tell secrets, books drift through the air like falling leaves, and the walls hum with a presence that feels like home.

In the grand tradition of C.S. Lewis and Tolkien comes the luminous storytelling of Warner Brown—a tale of wonder, sacrifice, and the kind of love that stretches beyond time itself.