The lost story (Tapa blanda)

Inspired by C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, this wild and wondrous novel isa fairy tale for grownups who still knock ontheback of wardrobes—just in case—from the author of The Wishing Game. As boys, best friends Jeremy Cox and RafeHowellvanished 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, Jeremyis a famous missing persons investigator with an uncanny ability to findthelost, 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 longlost sister . . . the longlost sister he and Rafe knew while living in that hidden kingdom. Nowtheformer lost boys must confront theirshared past,no matter how traumatic the memories.Alongside the headstrong Emilie, Rafe and Jeremy return to the enchanted world they calledhome for six months . . . for only then can they get back everything and everyone they've lost.