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When Sand awakens by himself in a long‑abandoned castle, he discovers the place has been devastated by an earthquake and is protected only by vicious thorny brambles. With no memories of how he arrived, he must survive by bellowing from the castle’s old forge and mending tools and weapons that somehow perform better than expected. As he overcomes these challenges, Sand encounters Perrotte, the castle’s lost heir, and together they begin to unravel the dark events that led to its destruction. Their quest to piece together broken stone, iron, and a shattered life proves to be the hardest challenge of all, but it is their only path to true freedom.
First publish date: 2014
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Fantasy
Authors: Merrie Haskell
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