02543nam a22002897a 4500008004100000020001800041040000800059041000800067050002700075100003200102245003500134260006300169300003100232520157000263650002801833650003101861650003701892650002601929650003601955650005101991650002802042655003302070655003402103942000802137952009302145999001502238251120b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781529436310  ctbs  aeng  aPS3618.E5726bL67 2024  aShaffer, Meg926551eauthor  aThe lost storyc/ Meg Shaffer.  aLondon :bArcadia, an imprint of Quercus Editions, c2024.  a329 pages :bmap ;c24 cm.  aInspired by C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, this wild and wondrous novel is a fairy tale for grown-ups who still knock on the back of wardrobes - just in case - from the author of The Wishing Game. As boys, best friends Jeremy Cox and Rafe Howell vanished in a West Virginia state park, only to mysteriously reappear six months later with no explanation for where they'd gone or how they'd survived. Fifteen years after their miraculous homecoming, Jeremy is a famous missing persons investigator with an uncanny ability to find the lost, while Rafe is a reclusive artist unable to stop creating otherworldly paintings and sculptures he shows to no one. He bears scars inside and out from his disappearance but has no memory of what happened while they were gone. Jeremy alone knows the fantastical truth behind their time in the woods. While the rest of the world was searching for them, the two missing boys were in a magical realm filled with impossible beauty and terrible danger. However, Jeremy has kept Rafe in the dark since their return for his own inscrutable reasons. But the time for burying secrets comes to an end when vet tech Emilie Wendel hires Jeremy to find her long-lost sister ... the long-lost sister he and Rafe knew while living in that hidden kingdom. Now the former lost boys must confront their shared past, no matter how traumatic the memories. Alongside the headstrong Emilie, Rafe and Jeremy return to the enchanted world they called home for six months ... for only then can they get back everything and everyone they've lost. 0aArtistsvFiction925596 0aFriendshipvFiction923929 0aImaginary placesvFiction924132 0aMagicvFiction924059 0aMissing personsvFiction924148 0aMissing personsxInvestigationvFiction925609 0aSecrecyvFiction925722 0aMagic realist fiction924024 0aPortal fantasy fiction926552  2lcc  00102lcc4070aTBSbTBSd2025-11-20l0oP-EN SHApB05790r2025-11-20t1w2025-11-20y1  c5191d5191