Summer in Orcus
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Summer in Orcus is a 2016 portal fantasy novel by Ursula Vernon, under her pseudonym T. Kingfisher. It was first published free as a web serial; a print version was published by Sofawolf Press in 2017.
Summer is an eleven-year-old girl seeking to escape her overprotective mother, when she meets Baba Yaga, who offers to grant her heart's desire — and then sends her to the otherworldly land of Orcus, where she must fulfill an unspecified quest.
Inspiration
Vernon has stated that the novel was written as her "response to Narnia and The Phantom Tollbooth and The Neverending Story".[1]