Peter S. Beagle returns to the world of The Last Unicorn in The Way Home, which collects two closely linked novellas.

The first is Two Hearts. A young girl named Sooz sets out from her home village, which has been beset by a murderous griffin. Sooz’s plan is to find the king and convince him to return with her to fight the beast. Enter two characters from The Last Unicorn, the wise and generous Molly Grue and her companion, Schmendrick, who is the world’s greatest magician, but who wishes to be anything but. Together, the trio seek out the king, who proves to be another hero from The Last Unicorn, the mighty Lír.

The longer novella, Sooz, is original to The Way Home. It serves as a sequel to Two Hearts and finds Sooz, now seventeen years of age, undertaking a task Molly Grue set her eight years before. Sooz learns a closely-held family secret, and undertakes a new and dangerous quest in a strange and mysterious land ruled by the mysterious, fey-like Dreamies.