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Once a Queen: A Novel


Sarah Arthur

ABOUT THE BOOK:

When fourteen-year-old American Eva Joyce unexpectedly finds herself spending the summer at the mysterious manor house of the English grandmother shes never met, she soon discovers that her family, the manor staff, and even the house itself are hiding secrets.

With odd things happening in the gardens at night, Eva embarks on a search for answers. Astonishingly, she learns that the Halls staff believe portals to other worlds exist—though hidden and steadily disappearing—and that Evas grandmother was once a queen in one of those worlds. But her grandmothers heart is closed to the beauty and pain of the past. Now its up to Eva to discover what really happened—and to decide if its possible that her favorite childhood fairy tales are true. As she starts unraveling the dangerous secrets around the grandmother who is more than she appears, Eva begins to wonder if she, too, is more than she understood herself to be.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Sarah Arthur is a fun-loving speaker and the author of a dozen books for teens and adults, including the bestselling Walking with Frodo: A Devotional Journey Through The Lord of the Rings. Among other nerdy adventures, she has served as preliminary fiction judge for Christianity Todays Book Awards, was a founding board member of the annual C. S. Lewis Festival in northern Michigan, and co-directs the Madeleine LEngle Writing Retreats.


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