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From the Ashes
The Durham’s are a beautiful and wealthy family from Milwaukee. The mother is the daughter of Charles Hasting- a famous children’s author, recently deceased. One summer, tragedy strikes the Clara Durham, just six years old, is abducted from their home.
Anne Snow, bookish and awkward and a huge fan of Hasting, is drawn into the Durham family, befriending Will Durham, and later, asked by his mother to travel with them to England to sort through Hasting’s library. She finds herself thrust into a mystery, one that involves Charles Hasting and his adopted daughter, Lulu, a refugee from War World II, and disturbingly similar to Clara Durham. She discovers these similarities echoed in an old book of Hasting’s- From the Ashes of Nimrah- narrated by Jane Childs, a tenacious girl who discovers an enchanted world, and is pressed upon, along with her sisters, to protect a princess from her brother, Nattan, an evil king obsessed with killing her.
While From the Ashes of Nimrah is dispersed throughout the novel, the reader is taken back in time to pivotal experiences in Hasting’s life, in which his book is eerily similar to events from War World II; and to the threats he faces from Johann Kopf, a dangerous man who hunts his daughter, Lulu. Anne is mystified why this book so closely resembles current events and its connections to the past. It’s as though it is trying to tell her something, offering clues and insights.
Fast-paced with many twists and turns, Anne ultimately answers the what happened to Clara Durham?
Anne Snow, bookish and awkward and a huge fan of Hasting, is drawn into the Durham family, befriending Will Durham, and later, asked by his mother to travel with them to England to sort through Hasting’s library. She finds herself thrust into a mystery, one that involves Charles Hasting and his adopted daughter, Lulu, a refugee from War World II, and disturbingly similar to Clara Durham. She discovers these similarities echoed in an old book of Hasting’s- From the Ashes of Nimrah- narrated by Jane Childs, a tenacious girl who discovers an enchanted world, and is pressed upon, along with her sisters, to protect a princess from her brother, Nattan, an evil king obsessed with killing her.
While From the Ashes of Nimrah is dispersed throughout the novel, the reader is taken back in time to pivotal experiences in Hasting’s life, in which his book is eerily similar to events from War World II; and to the threats he faces from Johann Kopf, a dangerous man who hunts his daughter, Lulu. Anne is mystified why this book so closely resembles current events and its connections to the past. It’s as though it is trying to tell her something, offering clues and insights.
Fast-paced with many twists and turns, Anne ultimately answers the what happened to Clara Durham?
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