In an Absent Dream

<p><b><i>Winner: 2022 Hugo Award for Best Series<br></i></b><b><br>A stand-alone fantasy tale from Seanan McGuire's Alex award-winning Wayward Children series, which began in the </b><b>Alex, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning, World Fantasy Award finalist, Tiptree Honor List </b><b><i>Every Heart a Doorway</i></b><br><br>This fourth entry and prequel tells the story of Lundy, a very serious young girl who would rather study and dream than become a respectable housewife and live up to the expectations of the world around her. As well she should.<br><br>When she finds a doorway to a world founded on logic and reason, riddles and lies, she thinks she's found her paradise. Alas, everything costs at the goblin market, and when her time there is drawing to a close, she makes the kind of bargain that never plays out well.<br><br><b>The Wayward Children Series</b><br>Book 1: <i>Every Heart a Doorway</i><br>Book 2: <i>Down Among the Sticks and Bones</i><br>Book 3: <i>Beneath the Sugar Sky</i><br>Book 4: <i>In an Absent Dream</i></p>