Jeff VanderMeer's A PECULIAR PERIL to at Farrar, Straus Children's

ANNIHILATION author Jeff VanderMeer's A PECULIAR PERIL, a two-volume fantasy about a boy who inherits his grandfather's mansion and discovers three strange doors, evidence his grandfather did not die of natural causes but spectacularly unnatural ones, and clues to the family's ties to an alternate Europe immersed in a war fought with strange tech and dark magic, to Wesley Adams at Farrar, Straus Children's, in a six-figure deal, in a pre-empt, in a two-book deal, for publication in July 2020, by Sally Harding (world English).