The High House

If you love uncanny places, if you thrill at the idea of hidden stairways, secret panels and endless passages, you’ll love this magnificent dream-chase of a novel.
The High House
is a strange and magical place, with infinite rooms great and small, and corridors that dissolve into kingdoms. As one character puts it, “You could spend many lifetimes wandering and not see it all.” Lose yourself in a wondrous adventure reminiscent of Lord Dunsany and Little, Big. Step into The High House.

Some say that Evenmere was built by God to run the universe. That without its loyal servants – Brittle, the butler, Enoch, the clock-winder, and Chant, the lamp-lighter – it will All run down. To young Carter Anderson, scion of the Master of Evenmere, the High House is home, and the servants his friends.

But Carter has an enemy, too: the Bobby, a devil in constable’s clothing, who temps him to an act that puts the house – and the universe – at risk, and which brings exile from the place he loves.

Now, ten years after his father’s disappearance, Carter has been summoned back, for the house has been besieged by the Bobby and his anarchists, and Carter, though reluctant and unprepared, must assume the responsibilities of Master. Yet before he can become Master, he must learn the Seven Words of Power, reclaim his father’s Lightning Sword and Tawny Mantle, and regain the Master Keys lost years ago. To do all that he will have to undertake not one, but several perilous journeys through Evenmere’s mysterious corridors, to kingdoms from which there may be no return…