The women wait there for January’s father, and while waiting, January writes her story. January finds the house where she was born, and meets her mother for the first time. Locke tries to follow her, but disappears in the in-between space between worlds.

There, she comes face to face with Locke, who has been closing Doors and keeping her family apart all along.įinally breaking free of Locke’s control over her, January reopens the blue Door in the field and escapes into the world where her father grew up-the same world of sea and stone she found as a little girl. To protect her friends and the people of Arcadia, January sets out on her own, and makes it to the Kentucky farm where her mother grew up. However, another evil member of the Society, Ilvane, discovers January’s whereabouts. Jane kills Havemeyer, and the threesome make their way to a Door that leads to a world called Arcadia. Havemeyer, finds her at the cabin, and threatens Samuel’s life. Afraid of January’s power to open Doors, one of Locke’s Society friends (it’s revealed that the Society has ill intentions), Mr. In so doing, she opens a Door from Battleboro to her friend Samuel’s cabin, where her nursemaid Jane is staying after Locke fired her. She uses a special silver coin as a pen to carve words on her arm, and has faith that her words will come true. With newfound confidence in her identity, January escapes from Battleboro. January continues to read The Ten Thousand Doors while imprisoned at Battleboro, and based on her experience discovering the blue Door as a child, realizes that the Doors described in the book are real, and the characters in the book, Ade and Yule, are her mother and father. In response, Locke sends her to Battleboro asylum. At Locke’s annual Society party, January stands up to Locke, motivated by anger at the loss of her father. She reads about Ade Larson and Yule Ian, two young people from different worlds who spent years searching for magic Doors between worlds. Upon hearing that her father is missing and likely dead, she escapes from her grief by reading her newly found book. The day before her 17th birthday, January finds a mysterious book, The Ten Thousand Doors. Over the course of her childhood and into her teenage years, January represses her adventurous nature in favor of the demure good girl Locke wants her to be. However, when Locke finds out what she has done, he locks her away in her room and breaks her wild, adventurous spirit. While traveling to Kentucky with Locke, she discovers a blue Door in an empty field that leads to a world by the sea. As a little girl, January loves exploring and getting into mischief. January Scaller grows up under the care and provision of wealthy Cornelius Locke, a collector and business owner that employs January’s father to travel the world and bring back objects for Locke’s collection.

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