And then one day a shapeshifting fox boy comes out the woods, into Rook's town.and Rook and Drift, with barely enough money for themselves, have another mouth to feed. Doors keep opening into a snowy woods she can't recognize.
And lately Rook's doors haven't cooperated as well as they should. It's a space with no other way in or out, and it is their nest.īut the one door Rook can't seem to draw is the door that will lead her and Drift back to their own true home. The door she uses most, though, leads to a refuge she shares with another exiled girl, Drift. She uses them to escape the security forces of the town that's her base of operations, and to help others in trouble with the authorities get away. Rook can make portals with chalk, that open to wherever she wishes them too. Rook was one of those children, who made her own way off into the world, and now she is an exile Just before the explosion, a boatload of children came through from the world of magic, arriving with no memories of their former lives, into a world that now looked at magic fear and suspicion. Her people brought magical wonders with them, and magic was everyone's darling, until the portal closed in an explosion of magic that had horrible consequences. Rook is the child of a magical people who came to her current world through a portal. Magic, character, world-building, and plot all work just beautifully together.
Several retailers including Amazon and IndieBound had listed the upcoming novel before it was officially revealed.The Door To the Lost, by Jaleigh Johnson (Delecorte, July 2018), is one of the strongest middle grade (for 9-12 year olds) fantasies I've read so far this year. The novel, The Golden City is set to release in April 2023 for eBook and US paperback, a UK will follow in June. In August 2022, Johnson won a book deal with Ubisoft and Aconyte to write a novel about the Hidden Ones Basim Ibn Ishaq and Hytham.
For Wizards of the Coast, she wrote several novels and short stories for the Dungeons and Dragons Forgotten Realms fiction line. All four of those books were published by Delacorte, she later wrote the Marvel novel Triptych for Aconyte Books, released September 2021. She later wrote an unrelated novel, The Door to the Lost (2019). Two standalone sequels followed, The Secrets of Solace (2017), and The Quest to the Uncharted Lands (2017). Johnson's middle grade debut novel, The Mark of the Dragonfly (2015) went on to become a New York Times bestseller and was chosen for the ABA Spring Indie Next list.
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