Once A Queen

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A mysterious manor house hides the keys to shocking family secretsand rapidly fading portals to other worldsin the richly woven opener to bestselling author Sarah Arthurs young adult fantasy series.

When American teenager Eva Joyce unexpectedly finds herself spending the summer at the estate of the English grandmother shes never met, troubling questions arise. Why have her parents been so long estranged from her grandmother? What secrets are the manor staffand the house itselfhiding?

When odd things start happening in the gardens at night, Eva turns to the elderly housekeeper, the gardener, and the gardeners grandson, Frankie, for answers. Astonishingly, they all seem to believe that Evas favorite childhood fairy tales are trueand that her grandmother was once a queen in another world. But her grandmothers heart is closed to the beauty and pain of the past. Now its up to Eva to discover what really happened.

Can Evas familys relationships be restored? Do portals to other worlds exist, or are they closed for good? As she seeks answers, Eva finds herself unraveling dangerous secrets and wrestling with grief for a vanishing childhoodall while facing the fear that growing up means giving up fairy tales forever.

Story Locale:1995, Western England (fictional region inspired by Malvern Hills)
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A mysterious manor house hides the keys to shocking family secretsand rapidly fading portals to other worldsin the richly woven opener to bestselling author Sarah Arthurs young adult fantasy series.

When American teenager Eva Joyce unexpectedly finds herself spending the summer at the estate of the English grandmother shes never met, troubling questions arise. Why have her parents been so long estranged from her grandmother? What secrets are the manor staffand the house itselfhiding?

When odd things start happening in the gardens at night, Eva turns to the elderly housekeeper, the gardener, and the gardeners grandson, Frankie, for answers. Astonishingly, they all seem to believe that Evas favorite childhood fairy tales are trueand that her grandmother was once a queen in another world. But her grandmothers heart is closed to the beauty and pain of the past. Now its up to Eva to discover what really happened.

Can Evas familys relationships be restored? Do portals to other worlds exist, or are they closed for good? As she seeks answers, Eva finds herself unraveling dangerous secrets and wrestling with grief for a vanishing childhoodall while facing the fear that growing up means giving up fairy tales forever.

Story Locale:1995, Western England (fictional region inspired by Malvern Hills)
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