Advent 2026

Twenty-Four Doors

One small invention for each day of December, up to Christmas Eve.

A tower of open doors grown through with branches, each doorway showing a different scene: a ship, mountains, a city, a library, a piano. A boy sits on the steps and reaches down to a woman in the sea below.

Children of the Second Stack

Follow Colin home

Colin and the House Between Signals come from Children of the Second Stack, a series by Kirstin Stevens for readers of 10 to 14. If someone on your Christmas list would like to go further in, start here.

  • Book One

    The Dream of Eve and the Child Called Deux

    A child wakes in a strange room and meets a light called Eve, and learns to tell real friendship from technology built to keep hold of you.

  • Book Two

    The Drowned Stack

    Colin finds a girl beneath the River Tyne. Bringing her home means going down into a hidden place under the water.

  • Field guide

    Who Lives Between?

    A field guide to everyone who lives in the House Between Signals, with a portrait of each. Colin has an entry of his own.

More of the lore: read the stories as they arrive at Lilith + Eve, play Siblings, a game for two people sharing one keyboard, or browse everything at Novacene Press.

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