The Magic Carpet and the Vault Beneath the Library: An Enchanting Middle-Grade Fantasy About a Hidden Vault, a Lost Librarian's Secret, and the Price of Magic - Softcover

Studio Press, BART

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798175728683

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

The keys fit. Nobody in Wren's family has opened this door
in thirty years.

Underneath the library her Aunt Jo kept for three decades is
the oldest thing in Marlow — not a fraying door, not a fed one,
not even a warm one, but the original wound: sealed for two
hundred years, from the night that started everything Fray has
spent the whole series trying to undo.

Jo has been alive on the other side all along, trying to close
the wound properly — and she needs one thing done from this side
to finish. But the man who's been circling this family since Book
One has been waiting two hundred years for exactly this moment.

This is the book that finally tells you what happened to Fray —
the whole night, unbound at last — and who else was standing there
when the world tore. And it's the book where a librarian comes
home.

• The fifth book of the series — the vault's secret, the
  rug's whole history, and the homecoming the series has been
  building toward


• Every secret has a floor — the town's oldest mystery,
  answered two hundred years down


• A guild divided, a door demanding both — and the discovery
  that the trade's oldest rule was always about company


• Spooky but safe — vault-dark thrills, zero gore, for
  strong readers ages 9–12

"The trade has no column for happy."

The fifth door is underneath. Bring keys. Bring company.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798175728683
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 156