Fortress

<p>The critically acclaimed bestselling author of <em>Falling Through the Earth</em> and <em>Angelology </em>returns with this much-anticipated memoir of love and transformation in France. <em>The Fortress</em> is Peter Mayle meets <em>Eat Pray Love</em> a gorgeously written account of one woman's journey to the other side of the romantic fairytale.</p><p><em>If I had been another woman I might have been skeptical. But I wasn't another woman. I was a woman ready to be swept away. I was a woman ready for her story to begin. As a writer story was all that mattered. Rising action dramatic complication heroes and villains and dark plots. I believed I was the author of my life that I controlled the narration.</em></p><p>From their first kiss twenty-seven-year-old writer Danielle Trussoni is spellbound by a novelist from Bulgaria. The two share a love of jazz and books and travel passions that intensify their whirlwind romance. </p><p>Eight years later hopeful to renew their marriage Danielle and her husband move to the south of France to a picturesque medieval village in the Languedoc. It is here in a haunted stone fortress built by the Knights Templar that she comes to understand the dark subterranean forces that have been following her all along. </p><p>While Danielle and her husband eventually part Danielle's time in the fortress brings precious wisdom about life and love that she could not have learned otherwise. Ultimately she finds the strength to overcome her illusions and start again.</p><p>An incisive look at romantic love <em>The Fortress</em> is one woman's fight to understand the complexities of her own heart told by one of the best writers of her generation.</p>