{"product_id":"the-enchanted-9780062285515","title":"The Enchanted","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Enchanted\u003c\/em\u003e wrapped its beautiful and terrible fingers around me from the first page and refused to let go after the last. A wondrous book that finds transcendence in the most unlikely of places. . . . So dark yet so exquisite.\" -- Erin Morgenstern, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Night Circus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn astonishing and redemptive novel for readers of Alice Sebold and Toni Morrison, told from the point of view of a convict whose magical interpretations of prison life allow him to find absolute joy while isolated from the rest of humanity and a female investigator who experiences her own personal salvation in her work as a death penalty investigator.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis is an enchanted place. Others don't see it but I do.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe enchanted place is a high security prison and is relayed through the eyes of an inmate on death row who escapes his surroundings by immersing himself in books, and by re-imagining the world that surrounds him. Instead of focusing on the cloudy medical vines that snake across the floor, empty and waiting for the warden's finger to press the red buttons, our narrator sees golden horses as they run deep under the earth, heat flowing like molten metal from their backs. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA woman and fallen priest haunt the prison halls--an unnamed female investigator only known as the Lady who is known for discovering information relating to soon-to-be executed inmates' backgrounds that can be used to overturn their sentences. She is put on the case of a man named York and as she digs into his past, the experience brings up ghosts of her own and threatens to destroy everything that she has come to know about the enchanted place. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Enchanted\u003c\/em\u003e is a magical novel about redemption, the humanity that can lie within what is monstrous, and the human capacity to transcend and survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDenfeld, Rene:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Rene Denfeld is an internationally bestselling author, licensed investigator, and foster mother. She is the author of the novels \u003cem\u003eThe Butterfly Girl, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Child Finder\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Enchanted. \u003c\/em\u003eHer novels have won numerous awards including a French Prix, and \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e named her a 2017 hero of the year for her justice work. She lives in Portland, Oregon.","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50644437827858,"sku":"9780062285515","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_49925d8c-67ea-4779-98a4-e348ec524148.jpg?v=1733110221","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-enchanted-9780062285515","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}