The Starless Sea

Zachary Ezra Rawlins, a graduate student in Vermont, finds in his university library a mysterious untitled book that contains a scene from his own childhood. Following clues in the text, he enters an underground harbour of stories, a labyrinth of doors, bees, keys, and painted symbols, and meets people who serve, hunt, or try to close that place. Parallel tales of a drowned city and a painted lover braid with his search. The novel is a fantasy about readers and hidden libraries, not a campus realist story.

Bound in dark blue cloth blocked on cover with an image in red and yellow. Endpapers printed in metallic Pantone. Gilded top page edge. Slipcase wrapped in dark blue textured paper printed and blocked with a design in gold foil. Dark blue ribbon marker. Dark blue endpapers.