num_pages: 384
description: Launching a brand-new series Kristy Cambron explores the collision of past and present as she discovers the ruins of a French castle long lost to history.A thirteenth century castle Chateau de Doux Reves has been forgotten for generations left to ruin in a storybook forest nestled deep in France's picturesque Loire Valley. It survived a sacking in the French Revolution was brought back to life and fashioned into a storybook chateau in the Gilded Age and was eventually felled and deserted after a disastrous fire in the 1930s.As Ellie Carver sits by her grandmother's bedside she hears stories of a castle . . . of lost love and a hidden chapel that played host to a secret fight in the World War II French resistance. But her grandmother is quickly slipping into the locked-down world of Alzheimer's and Ellie must act fast if she wants to uncover the truth of her family's history.Sparked by the discovery of a long forgotten family heirloom Ellie embarks on a journey to French wine country to uncover the mystery surrounding The Sleeping Beauty--the castle so named for Charles Perrault's beloved fairy tale--and unearth its secrets before they're finally silenced by time.Set in three different time periods--the French Revolution World War II and present day--The Lost Castle is a story of loves won and lost of battles waged and an enchanted castle that inspired the epic fairy tales time left behind.
language: English
title: The Lost Castle
publisher: Thomas Nelson