The Splendour Falls (US)

✍ Scribed by Kearsley, Susanna

• Book ID: 108736344
• Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 612 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

Praise for New York Times bestseller The Firebird :

"Kearsley blends history, romance and a bit of the supernatural into a glittering, bewitching tale." --Kirkus

An Ancient Castle, a Tragic Love, and a Web of Secrets Begins to Unravel...

Emily Braden has stopped believing in fairy tales and happy endings. When her fascinating but unreliable cousin Harry invites her on a holiday to explore the legendary own of Chinon, and promptly disappears--well, that's Harry for you.

As Emily makes the acquaintance of Chinon and its people, she begins to uncover dark secrets beneath the charm. Legend has it that during a thirteenth-century siege of the castle that looms over the city, Queen Isabelle, child bride of King John, hid a "treasure of great price." And in the last days of the German occupation during World War II, another Isabelle living in Chinon, a girl whose love for an enemy soldier went tragically awry.

As the dangers of the...