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The Girl Who Shone: A Keeper of Thresholds Story
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 4 2025
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.93 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
When questions become dangerous and brightness needs hiding, one girl must light the way home.
Cora Bell lives in Wrenfield, a perfectly sensible seaside town where the most rebellious thing a person might do is butter their toast with scandalous thickness. When Wrenfield began to dim, not in the obvious way, like a bulb burning out, but in the sneaky way that makes you forget what color your favorite jumper used to be.
When Cora discovers a hidden legacy from her ancestor Augusta Lumen, a mysterious key, a map that shows places that shouldn't exist and a fox made of living light; she learns that some families have always been Keepers of Thresholds, guardians of the doors between the ordinary and the extraordinary.
Keeping doors open is harder than it sounds, especially when Mr. Bartholomew Sallow, the town's meticulous Clerk, has been systematically bottling up every spark of curiosity, every burst of laughter, every inconvenient question that might disturb Wrenfield's peace. His Quiet Week isn't just about noise, it's about making sure nothing unexpected can happen ever again.
With the help of Jax (who can persuade broken things to mend themselves), Ivo (who collects jokes the way other boys collect stamps), and even Tessa Mott (whose spectacular rudeness turns out to be a form of courage), Cora must wake the sleeping Beacon Stones, outwit the Sootlings who steal brightness, and discover what it truly means to keep the light on for others.
Perfect for readers who loved The House in the Cerulean Sea, The Ten Thousand Doors of January, or anyone who suspects that the most important magic happens in the spaces between heartbeats.
A story about:
- Finding courage in teacups and wonder in window ledges
- The revolutionary act of asking inconvenient questions
- Friendship that includes both foxes and argumentative kettles
- The kind of magic that makes the ordinary world more itself, not less
A lantern of a book - warm, bright and exactly what you need when the world feels dim.
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