{"product_id":"the-castle-behind-thorns-9780062008190","title":"The Castle Behind Thorns","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Merrie Haskell\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: HarperCollins\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: HarperCollins\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Fantasy - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStories don't know everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Sand wakes up alone in a long-abandoned castle, he has no idea how he got there. The stories all said the place was ruined by an earthquake, and Sand did not expect to find everything inside torn in half or smashed to bits. Nothing lives here and nothing grows, except the vicious, thorny bramble that holds Sand prisoner. Why wasn't this in the stories?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo survive, Sand does what he knows best--he fires up the castle's forge to mend what he needs. But the things he fixes work somehow better than they ought to. Is there magic in the mending? Or have the saints who once guarded this place returned?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Sand finds the castle's lost heir, Perrotte, they begin to untwine the dark secrets that caused the destruction. Putting together the pieces--of stone and iron, and of a broken life--is harder than Sand ever imagined, but it's the only way to regain their freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith gorgeous language and breathtaking magic, Merrie Haskell's \u003cem\u003eThe Castle Behind Thorns\u003c\/em\u003e tells of the power of memory, story, forgiveness, and the true gifts of craft and imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45354967498903,"sku":"9780062008190","price":825.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780062008190.webp?v=1767670315","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-castle-behind-thorns-9780062008190","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}