If Nancy’s pull toward the Halls of the Dead and the capital-D Doors called to you, you’ll love how January Scaller discovers a Door hidden inside a book and sets off to reclaim the worlds and selves stolen from her. Like Eleanor West’s kids, January wrestles with a society that insists her journeys were fantasies while she chases truths Mr. Locke would rather keep closed. The same bittersweet longing that runs through Nancy, Sumi, and Kade’s stories pulses here—only with a sweeping, lyrical adventure through thresholds that won’t stay shut.

If Eleanor West’s school as a refuge-with-secrets hooked you—especially once the murders began—Gailey’s tale drops you into Osthorne Academy for Young Mages, where PI Ivy Gamble (sister to a faculty mage) probes a grisly death that the administration wants to explain away. As Ivy unravels cliques, crushes, and forbidden spells in the halls, the investigation’s twists echo the uneasy alliances Nancy forms with Jack, Jill, and Kade when their sanctuary turns deadly.

If the knife-edge whodunit that stalks Eleanor West’s corridors gripped you, this gaslamp mystery gathers Mary Jekyll, Diana Hyde, Beatrice Rappaccini, and others to hunt a serial killer tied to Mary’s father. The investigative camaraderie—sharp banter, uneasy trust, and revelations that reshape loyalties—mirrors how Nancy and her friends sift clues and motives after Sumi’s death, only here the suspects and victims are stitched from literature and alchemy.

If you connected with Nancy’s certainty about who she is—and Kade’s fight to be seen—this follows Yadriel, a trans brujo determined to prove himself by summoning a spirit, only to call up the irrepressible Julian Díaz. As Yadriel navigates family expectations, ghosts, and a dangerous plot, the affirmation of identity amidst enchantment echoes the fierce clarity the kids at Eleanor West’s home claim for themselves after the Doors change them.

If it warmed you when Nancy, Kade, Jack, and even prickly Jill forged bonds under Eleanor’s roof, this delivers that same heart in a gentler key. Linus Baker audits an island orphanage run by Arthur Parnassus, home to magical children like Talia the gnome and Lucy (yes, the Antichrist). Watching them knit Linus into their circle—and stand together when outsiders threaten their home—recaptures the loyalty and belonging that make Eleanor’s school feel like a home against the world.