A Box of Gargoyles

Twelve-year-old Maya Davidson is getting used to living in Paris with her family. And now that the terrible purple-eyed man is gone, she’s even enjoying herself and not worrying so much.

But then strange things begin to happen in the city. Stone gargoyles that can fly and talk, women who sing in the street as if in a trance, a shadowy person-sized column of leaves and dust with hints of purple where its eyes would be... all of these come from a dark magic that ripples throughout Paris.

Soon Maya discovers that the purple-eyed man isn’t really gone. He’s behind the strangeness. And now he has bound Maya to make him whole again... by trading her life for his.

In this luminous follow-up to The Cabinet of Earths, which The Horn Book called “an impressive achievement,” author Anne Nesbet weaves a thrilling story of magic and danger that will be enjoyed by Maya’s fans as well as by those who are meeting her for the first time.