Somewhere Beyond the Sea

Somewhere Beyond the Sea is the hugely anticipated sequel to TJ Klune'sThe House in the Cerulean Sea, one of the best-loved and best-selling fantasynovels of the past decade.Amagical house. A secret past. A summons that could change everything.ArthurParnassus lives a good life built on the ashes of a bad one.He’sthe headmaster of a strange orphanage on a distant and peculiar island, and hehopes to soon be the adoptive father to the six dangerous and magical childrenwho live there.Arthurworks hard and loves with his whole heart so none of the children ever feelthe neglect and pain that he once felt as an orphan on that very same islandso long ago. He is not alone: joining him is the love of his life, LinusBaker, a former caseworker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. Andthere's the island's sprite, Zoe Chapelwhite, and her girlfriend, Mayor HelenWebb. Together, they will do anything to protect the children.Butwhen Arthur is summoned to make a public statement about his dark past, hefinds himself at the helm of a fight for the future that his family, and allmagical people, deserve.Andwhen a new magical child hopes to join them on their island home—one who findspower in calling himself monster, a name that Arthur worked so hard to protecthis children from—Arthur knows they’re at a breaking point: their family willeither grow stronger than ever or fall apart.