The Otherwhere Post (A Good Morning America YA Book Club Pick)
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Publisher Description
A Good Morning America YA Book Club Pick!
The New York Times bestselling author of Hotel Magnifique returns with this stunning dark academic fantasy full of deadly magic and dangerous secrets, perfect for fans of Divine Rivals and A Study in Drowning.
Seven years ago, Maeve Abenthy lost everything: her world, her father, even her name. Desperate to escape the stain of her father’s crimes, she lives under a fake name, never staying in one place long enough to put down roots.
Then she receives a mysterious letter with four impossible words: Your father was innocent.
To uncover the truth, she poses as an apprentice for the Otherwhere Post, where she’ll be trained in the art of scriptomancy—the dangerous magic that allows couriers to enchant letters and deliver them to other worlds. But looking into her father’s past draws more attention than she’d planned.
Her secretive, infuriatingly handsome mentor knows she’s lying about her identity, and time is running out to convince him to trust her. Worse, she begins to receive threatening letters, warning her to drop her investigation—or else. For Maeve to unravel the mystery of what happened seven years ago, she may have to forfeit her life.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A teen endeavors to exonerate her father in this pulse-pounding fantasy from Taylor (Hotel Magnifique). The fictional worlds of Leyland, Inverly, and Barrow connect via Written Doors, passages made with scriptomancy—the art of using inked words to harness arcane magic. When a poisonous, predatory vine overruns Inverly, 12-year-old Maeve escapes to Leyland before someone burns the Doors to prevent the vines' spread; her scriptomancer father is killed and posthumously blamed for the infestation, prompting Maeve to assume an alias. The Doors' destruction limits inter-world communication to correspondence delivered by the backlogged, scriptomancer-staffed Otherwhere Post, which takes seven years to give Maeve—now a teen—an anonymous letter asserting her father's innocence. Desperate to ID the sender, Maeve steals an apprentice courier's identity and infiltrates the Post. Complicating matters are a nosy roommate, a handsome mentor who suspects Maeve is hiding something, and an unidentified extortionist who will expose Maeve if she doesn't quit digging. Avalanching peril keeps the pages turning in Taylor's intricately plotted, deliberately crafted tale. Inventive worldbuilding adds dimension, while witty banter and reluctant romance among intersectionally diverse, emotionally complex characters inject levity and depth. Ages 12–up. Agents: Hillary Jacobson and Alexandra Machinist, CAA.
