"Quintin charters a magical sailing ship and heads off with Julia to the farthest reaches of Fillory. He is in search for adventure, but instead his journey takes them back to the last place Quintin wants to be: his parents' house in Chesterton, Massachusetts. Quintin is a magician and a king, but even he can't rescue them from suburban America. Only the dark, twisted sorcery Julia learned in the seedy back alleys of the Brooklyn underground magic scene can put them on the road back to Fillory. As Quintin and Julia follow the trail of clues from Brakebills to Venice to the home of the real-life children who appeared in the Fillory novels, they gradually discover a more sinister, more powerful threat than any they've feared"--Container.