Summary

Book 1 continues as Zachary goes out for drinks with Kat and her girlfriend Lexi. Kat points out a guy that is staring at Zachary, but he disappears. The next day. Zachary goes to the library and asks Elena for a list of books from the Keating donation. He gathers the books and leaves them in a pile to get a snack. When he returns, one book, called The Age of Fable, or Beautifies of Mythology, is missing. Later, he searches “Starless Sea” on the internet and finds a photograph of a masked woman and man at the Algonquin Hotel Annual Literary Masquerade in 2014. In “Sweet Sorrows: A knock upon the memory of a door,” a girl finds an abandoned door in a forest that pulls her into the Starless Sea. Meanwhile, Zachary is on a train to Manhattan to attend this year...