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THE CASTLE BEHIND THORNS
By: Merrie Haskell
Katherine Tegen Books
May 2014
On Sale: May 27, 2014
Featuring: Sand
341 pages
ISBN: 0062008196
EAN: 9780062008190
Kindle: B00FJ3ACCY
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Fantasy | Young Adult
Stories don't know everything. When Sand wakes up alone in a long-abandoned castle, he has no idea how he got there. The stories all said the place was ruined by an earthquake, and Sand did not expect to find everything inside torn in half or smashed to bits. Nothing lives here and nothing grows, except the vicious, thorny bramble that holds Sand prisoner. Why wasn't this in the stories? To survive, Sand does what he knows bestβhe fires up the castle's forge to mend what he needs. But the things he fixes work somehow better than they ought to. Is there magic in the mending? Or have the saints who once guarded this place returned? When Sand finds the castle's lost heir, Perrotte, they begin to untwine the dark secrets that caused the destruction. Putting together the piecesβof stone and iron, and of a broken lifeβis harder than Sand ever imagined, but it's the only way to regain their freedom.
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