The Book
Perdita — A Lost Child
A kingdom sleeps. A fire is set in the stable, a bridge is left down, and by morning the Crown Prince is gone — carried off into the dark by men who serve a lion-hearted tyrant named Babur. So begins a war that will outlast the men who started it.
Far from that castle, in a world that looks nothing like it, another child is lost. Perdita — the name itself means lost child — is found and raised by a lonely woman who never expected to be a mother. She grows up loved, and grows up wondering. Somewhere her true parents are still walking the roads, still searching, still refusing to believe she is gone.
In the tradition of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, Perdita — A Lost Child follows two children raised in separate worlds as those worlds begin to dissolve. Neighbors turn on neighbors for thinking differently, looking differently, speaking differently. Faithfulness is tested. Friendship costs something. And the question that runs beneath every page is the oldest one there is: when everything you knew is falling around your ears, how do you find your way home?
Questions the story asks
- Who will you serve? Who will you trust?
- Who will be the one who solves all the difficulties? Is that the hero? Or is the hero even here?
- Perhaps we look instead for the heroine to change everything.
- Consuela — the helper and guide? Jocosa — the poor lonely woman who finds and adopts a baby girl? Halil, Benigo, or Jabir?
- Are we lost too? How will we find home again? Hope again?
Perdita, her parents and their extraordinary friends stand against forces of evil and treachery that threaten their very existence — and against a world that has decided everyone must serve Babur, and only Babur.