Having escaped from Castle Cant during the Chewing Gum Rebellion, Lucy and Pauline try to elude their pursuers and one of the girls discovers a surprising truth about her parentage.

Having escaped from Castle Cant during the Chewing Gum Rebellion, Lucy and Pauline try to elude their pursuers and one of the girls discovers a surprising truth about her parentage.

Evidence of Murder

The Barony of Cant is a land out of time, which exists alongside the modern world. Within this land, readers will discover and fall in love with Lucy Wickright, reluctant sidekick and maidservant to the Baron of Cant's daughter, Pauline. Lucy becomes a self-styled spy and player in a rebellion that is brewing not only throughout the Barony, but within the Castle itself, and with the aid of her friend, the court astronomer Luigi Lemonjello, flees the clutches of the evil Vladimir Orloff, thwarts the rebellion, and in true dramatic fashion rescues Pauline from the castle prison. The perfect mix of irresistible characters, heroism and fast-paced action and adventure, THE SECRET OF CASTLE CANT encompasses all the qualities that readers relish in fantasy fiction.

Solve dozens of unique puzzles to lift a castle's curse in The Cursed Castle: An Escape Room in a Book!

SUMMARY: A mystery story in which the reader solves a series of picture puzzles in order to find the solution to the mystery.

An outrageous, hilarious, and touching memoir by the youngest of nine children in a hardscrabble, beyond-eccentric Maine family. With everything happening on Helen Peppe's backwoods Maine farm, life was wild -- and not just for the animals. Sibling rivalry, rock-bottom poverty, feral male chauvinism, sex in the hayloft: everything seemed--and was -- out of control. In telling her wayward family tale, Peppe manages deadpan humor, an unerring eye for the absurd, and poignant compassion for her utterly overwhelmed parents. While her feisty resilience and candor will inevitably remind readers of Jeannette Walls or Mary Karr, Peppe's wry insight and moments of tenderness with family and animals are entirely her own. As Richard Hoffman, the author of Half the House: A Memoir puts it: "Pigs Can't Swim -- is an unruly, joyous troublemaker of a book."