Zachary meets a pink-haired woman, Mirabel, who becomes his guide to and through the place of the Starless Sea.
And others, aboveground, would go to any lengths to prevent people from entering the underground world. Only a few people are left to guard them. Rooms and hallways are almost empty of life but filled with books and paintings and stories. Soon after, Zachary is off on a quest to find out where this book came from - and, almost unknowingly, to access a world hidden deep underground, on the shores of the Starless Sea. To top that off, on both the door and the book cover are a bee, a key, and a sword. But what equally shakes him and makes him obsessed with this mysterious book is a story that clearly is about him, standing at that door as a boy. He finds a strange old book, filled with fanciful stories that draw him in. His story picks up and gets going when he is a grad student reading as many novels as he can on a school break.
But he does not, and the next day the beautiful painted wall has been covered with white paint. It looks so real that he could reach out and turn the knob. Zachary Ezra Rawlins’s story begins with a door, really an elaborate painting of a door, in the alleyway behind his fortune-teller mother’s store.
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