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Fifteen-year-old Holly has spent her whole life closing a mirror she was never told the reason for. On the worst storm of her life, alone in the house her grandmother left her, she finally learns why. Something has been waiting on the other side of that glass far longer than Holly’s been alive. And it just found a way through.

Within days she’s pulled into a hidden world tucked behind an ordinary block of the French Quarter—a sanctuary for teenagers like her, each carrying a fragment of the same impossible inheritance. Under the guidance of Amina, blind and unshakable, and her granddaughter Lily, Holly starts to learn what she can actually do.

But whatever followed her out of that storm didn’t stay behind. As a government operation closing in on the sanctuary collides with the thing hunting it from within, Holly will have to decide how much of herself she’s willing to spend to save the family she’s only just found—before the glass decides for her.

Six weeks into a world she never asked for, Holly is starting to believe she might actually belong. Then the team’s first real mission fails—and everything she thought she understood about safety, family, and the thing that followed her home starts to come undone.

A missing woman. A billionaire chasing a secret buried since 1988. A shop across town where an old man carries a debt he can’t set down. And somewhere behind her own eyes, in the quiet moments no one else can see, her mirror has started answering back.

Every gift has a cost. Every family keeps a secret. And every mirror, sooner or later, comes due.

For fifty-two years the North Pole has waited in the cold, searching every mirror in the world for one man who walked away.

In a quiet town in upstate New York, an old woodcarver is about to learn what he left behind.

A blind woman who sees more than she should. A girl who feels what everyone else feels. An elf who refuses to stop looking.

And in every mirror, something older is watching. It has never told a lie.