The Second Summoning
core novel 2001 The Keeper's Chronicles
Record
| First published | 2001 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.92 (3,599 ratings, collected 2026-10-09) |
| Page count | 416 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780886779757 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
Claire Hansen and her cat Austin have settled into running the Kingston guest house, with Dean as more than a handyman, when Claire's teenaged sister Diana, a Keeper-in-training with more power than sense, makes a small mistake with a Summoning and accidentally creates a gateway that lets an angel and a demon into the world. They arrive in human form as Samuel and Bythe, beings meant to embody the Light and the Darkness, with every opportunity to tip the world's balance, and both must learn very quickly how to be teenagers on Earth, from food and clothes to music and sex. Claire and Diana have to get them home before either side wins, while the angel discovers dogs and the demon discovers shopping. The second book, which reviewers found wittier than the first.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Keeper's Chronicles
- Series: The Keeper's Chronicles core; position 2 of 3 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Tanya Huff
Notes
- From the series record (The Keeper's Chronicles): Tanya Huff's comic urban fantasy of the Keepers, a hereditary order who keep the universe in one piece by fixing the places where the Darkness and the Light leak into the world, as seen by Claire Hansen, her talking cat Austin and the guest house in Kingston, Ontario, that sits on a hole to Hell.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Keeper's Chronicles: position 2 of 3: previous Summon the Keeper (1998) · next Long Hot Summoning (2003)
Sources
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