Somewhere Beyond the Sea

        一棟神奇的房子、一段秘密的過去
       以及可以改變一切的傳票⋯

       亞瑟．帕納索斯揮別了悲慘的過去，現在過著美好的人生。他在一個與世隔絕的奇特島嶼上，擔任育幼院的院長。這裡住了六位具有魔法血統的孩子，他們被外界視為危險分子，而亞瑟希望自己有一日能成為他們的合法養父。

       亞瑟傾心盡力地照顧這些孩子，希望讓他們都能夠感受到家庭的溫暖，避免體會到多年前他自己在島上經歷的孤獨與痛苦。和亞瑟並肩的還有他的摯愛萊納斯．貝克，魔法青少年管理部的前任社工；以及島上的守護精靈柔伊‧查普懷特和她的女友—市長海倫．瑋柏。為了保護這群孩子，他們四人願意付出一切。

       然而一張傳票，代表著亞瑟必須將他的黑暗過去公諸於世。為了家庭、為了魔法族群的未來，亞瑟必須挺身而出。

       這時，有個新的孩子想要加入他們的行列：這個自視為「怪物」的孩子，為育幼院貼上了亞瑟一直極力避免的標籤。亞瑟知道事情已經來到臨界點，他的家庭若能挺過威脅，就能變得更堅強，否則將面臨潰散。

       歡迎回到馬斯亞島，聆聽亞瑟的故事。(文／博客來外文館)

        Hope is the thing with feathers. And hope is the thing with fire.

       Somewhere Beyond the Sea is the hugely anticipated sequel to TJ Klune's The House in the Cerulean Sea, one of the best-loved and best-selling fantasy novels of the past decade.

       A magical house. A secret past. A summons that could change everything.

       Arthur Parnassus lives a good life, built on the ashes of a bad one. He's the headmaster of a strange orphanage on a distant and peculiar island, and he hopes to soon be the adoptive father to the six magical and so-called dangerous children who live there.

       Arthur works hard and loves with his whole heart so none of the children ever feel the neglect and pain that he once felt as an orphan on that very same island so long ago. And he is not alone: joining him is the love of his life, Linus Baker, a former caseworker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth; Zoe Chapelwhite, the island's sprite; and her girlfriend, Mayor Helen Webb. Together, they will do anything to protect the children.

       But when Arthur is summoned to make a public statement about his dark past, he finds himself at the helm of a fight for the future that his family, and all magical people, deserve.

       And when a new magical child hopes to join them on their island home—one who finds power in calling himself monster, a name Arthur worked so hard to protect his children from—Arthur knows they're at a breaking point: their family will either grow stronger than ever or fall apart.

       Welcome back to Marsyas Island. This is Arthur's story.

       Somewhere Beyond the Sea is a story of resistance, lovingly told, about the daunting experience of fighting for the life you want to live and doing the work to keep it.