One Bright Star to Guide Them

[marycatelli]

One Bright Star to Guide Them by John C. Wright

Once upon a time, four children went to a magical land and did great and wonderful deeds. Then they came back, and grew up.

This opens with one, Thomas, middle-aged and not quite sober, trying to unlock his front door when he drops his key. Which is how he discovers their old companion, the black cat Tybalt, has returned with his magical key. And then he learns that there is trouble afoot.

It involves much from their old quest, discoveries of things, and people, gone wrong, vampires, willow women, writing readable only by certain lights, a gravestone like a ship with a swan's head as its prow, and more

Comments

[ndrosen]

I remember reading that.

[marycatelli]

I think I'll remember it, too