The Lost Story

Inspired by C. S. LewisΓÇÖs The Chronicles of Narnia,this wild and wondrous novel is a fairy tale for grown-ups who still knock on the back of wardrobesΓÇöjust in caseΓÇöfrom the author of The Wishing Game. ΓÇ£This is the book youΓÇÖve been waiting for.ΓÇ¥ΓÇöRichard RussoPulitzer PrizeΓÇôwinning author of Empire Falls and the North Bath Trilogy As boysbest friends Jeremy Cox and Rafe Howell went missing in a vast West Virginia state forestonly to mysteriously reappear six months later with no explanation for where theyΓÇÖd gone or how theyΓÇÖd survived. Fifteen years after their miraculous homecomingRafe is a reclusive artist who still bears scars inside and out but has no memory of what happened during those months. MeanwhileJeremy has become a famed missing personsΓÇÖ investigator. With his uncanny abilitieshe is the one person who can help vet tech Emilie Wendell find her sisterwho vanished in the very same forest as Rafe and Jeremy. Jeremy alone knows the fantastical truth about the disappearancesfor while the rest of the world was searching for themthe two missing boys were in a magical realm filled with impossible beauty and terrible danger. He believes it is there that they will find EmilieΓÇÖs sister. HoweverJeremy has kept Rafe in the dark since their return for his own inscrutable reasons. But the time for burying secrets comes to an end as the quest for EmilieΓÇÖs sister begins. The former lost boys must confront their shared pastno matter how traumatic the memories. Alongside the headstrong EmilieRafe and Jeremy must return to the enchanted world they called home for six monthsΓÇöfor only then can they get back everything and everyone theyΓÇÖve lost.