Bøger af Stefanie Jacob

"You were right about mo, Roxanne, you were right from the start! Pm a monster, a filthy, despicable, wretched monster! You're right about hating me... I'm cursed, and so arc the other miserable creatures T dragged along with me..."No one dares go near the derelict old castle perched on Timber Hill. Everyone believes that it's haunted.Sixteen-year-old Roxanne doesn't believe in ghosts, and entering the castle is simply a challenge for her. What she discovers inside, though, shakes her mindset; the truth scares and enchants her at the same time; it puts her life on the line, while leaving her bewitched and piquing her curiosity. She is gripped by such a tyrannical burning curiosity that she cannot stop going back there again and againuntil she discovers all its secrets.Upon crossing the threshold of the old mansion, the greatest adventure of her life begins. She falls in love, gets hurt and makes some otherworldly friends...She pushes her own soul to the limit, realises the power of forgiveness and, above all, discovers that her life is bound up with the castle, its mysterious owner and its ghosts.In the end, when she unwittingly risks giving its secrets away, the consequences for the others and herself are devastating...Timber's Castle is the first book of the trilogy Hemiphos. A tour dc force ballad that wasn't set to music and verse, but was cloaked in the mantle of prose.