Searchers: A Study in Satin Tyber Hastings has learned that books can be doorways. Now he must learn how to read the world beyond them. Sophie and Musashi remain trapped within the mysterious Divine Web, an impossible realm of endless strands, stolen treasures, and a monstrous Widow whose true purpose may be very different from what it first appears. Escape should be their only concern. Instead, Sophie begins to notice something hidden within the chaos. The Web has a pattern. Back at the Hastings house, Tyber is conducting an investigation of his own. His father's mysterious connection to Oxford, C. S. Lewis, and J. R. R. Tolkien raises questions William Hastings has never answered. With the unlikely guidance of some of literature's greatest minds, Tyber begins learning new ways to confront the impossible. Lewis teaches him to reconsider how a story is read. Arthur Conan Doyle teaches him to separate observation from assumption. Tolkien teaches him that resemblance and identity are not the same thing. Those lessons become matters of survival when a mysterious Doberman named Ward arrives at the Hastings home—and Killer, Mrs. Coler's spiteful little miniature pinscher, reacts with inexplicable terror. Inside the Divine Web, something else has arrived as well. As the two worlds begin to overlap, Tyber, Sophie, Musashi, and their unusual companions uncover a truth more extraordinary than any of them expected. The Web may not simply be a prison. The Widow may not simply be a monster. And the countless objects suspended among its strands were not stolen because they were valuable. They were stolen because they were loved. To survive what is coming, Sophie and Tyber must stop following individual threads and discover what happens where they cross. Because satin is not defined by the thread from which it is made. It is defined by the weave. Blending literary mystery, fantasy adventure, humor, and the strange magic of books, Searchers: A Study in Satin continues Tyber Hastings's journey into a world where stories are alive, lost things are rarely truly gone, and understanding the pattern may be far more important than escaping it.
