num_pages: 656
description: The first book in a new YA fantasy duology from a bestselling genre-expanding master about a teenager who embarks on a quest to protect the world from an alternate universe where magic abounds and history has been rewritten.After Jonathan Lambsheads elusive grandfather dies the recently orphaned teenager inherits the family mansionand its contents. Jonathan soon discovers that the mansions basement holds more than just oddities: three doors serve as portals with one leading to an alt-Earth called Aurora where magic abounds history has been re-written and an occult dictator called Aleister Crowley leads an army pillaging alt-Europe. Jonathan learns of his destiny as a member of The Order a secret society devoted to keeping our world separate from Aurora and embarks on an epic quest to protect Earth from Crowleys dark magic.Over the course of the duology Jonathan uncovers more of the worlds outside of our own the magic that permeates them his own destiny and the secrets buried in his family history.
language: English
title: A Peculiar Peril
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)