Somewhere Beyond the Sea

Featuring gorgeous orange sprayed edges, "Somewhere Beyond the Sea" is the hugely anticipated sequel to TJ Klune's "The House in the Cerulean Sea," one of the best-loved and best-selling fantasy novels of the past decade. A magical house, a secret past, and a summons that could change everything await.

Arthur Parnassus lives a good life built on the ashes of a bad one. He is the master of a strange orphanage on a distant and peculiar island, hoping to soon be the adoptive father to six dangerous and magical children who live there. Arthur works hard and loves with his whole heart so none of the children ever feel the neglect and pain that he once felt as an orphan on that very same island long ago.

He is not alone; joining him is the love of his life, Linus Baker, a former caseworker in the Department In Charge of Magical Youth. There’s also the island's sprite, Zoe Chapelwhite, and her girlfriend, Mayor Helen Webb. Together, they will do anything to protect the children.

However, when Arthur is summoned to make a public statement about his dark past, he finds himself at the helm of a fight for the future that his family, and all magical people, deserve. When a new magical child hopes to join them on their island home—one who finds power in calling himself monster, a name that Arthur worked so hard to protect his children from—Arthur knows they are at a breaking point: their family will either grow stronger than ever or fall apart.

Welcome back to Marsyas Island. This is Arthur's story. "Somewhere Beyond the Sea" is a story of resistance, lovingly told, about the daunting experience of fighting for the life you want to live and doing the work to keep it.