From the author of cult favourite The Wishing Game comes a Narnia-inspired fairy tale for
grown-ups who still knock on the back of wardrobe door . . . you know just in case. Fifteen
years ago two boys went missing at a state park in West Virginia. Six months later they
mysteriously reappeared. Jeremy wouldn't say where they went and Rafe was unable having no
memory of their time lost in the woods though he bears terrible scars on his back that no one
can explain. Now adults Jeremy is a missing persons investigator with an uncanny ability to
find lost and kidnapped girls. Meanwhile Rafe has become a recluse an artist unable to stop
creating fantastical paintings and sculptures he shows to no one. When Emilie goes to Jeremy
seeking help for her older sister who was kidnapped eighteen years earlier he recognizes her
as the girl he's been questing for all these years. Emilie is the lost princess of Shanandoah
and her sister is the Queen of the fantasy world where he and Rafe spent those six magical
months when they were missing. Their return should have been a joyful one but when they
arrive they learn an old foe of Rafe's has returned and only he can save them all and their
world . . . but only if he can remember who he truly is. Only then will they get back
everything and everyone they've lost.
