The Castle Behind Thorns

A young blacksmith must piece together a ruined castle-and its mysterious past-in this "graceful and enchanting fantasy" (Rae Carson, author of the Girl of Fire and Thorns series).

When Sand wakes up alone in a long-abandoned castle, he has no idea how he got there. Everything inside is torn in half or slashed to bits-and beyond the walls, a vicious, thorny bramble prevents Sand from leaving. In order to survive, the blacksmith's apprentice does what he knows best-he fires up the castle's f...