{"product_id":"the-fortress-a-love-story-isbn-9780062459008","title":"The Fortress: A Love Story","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe critically acclaimed, bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eFalling Through the Earth\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAngelology \u003c\/em\u003ereturns with this much-anticipated memoir of love and transformation in France. \u003cem\u003eThe Fortress\u003c\/em\u003e is Peter Mayle meets \u003cem\u003eEat, Pray, Love\u003c\/em\u003e, a gorgeously written account of one woman’s journey to the other side of the romantic fairytale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEight 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn incisive look at romantic love, \u003cem\u003eThe Fortress\u003c\/em\u003e is one woman’s fight to understand the complexities of her own heart, told by one of the best writers of her generation.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eThe critically acclaimed, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eFalling Through the Earth\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAngelology\u003c\/em\u003e returns with this much-anticipated memoir of love and transformation in the South of France. \u003cem\u003eThe Fortress \u003c\/em\u003eis \u003cem\u003eA Year in Provence \u003c\/em\u003emeets \u003cem\u003eEat, Pray, Love \u003c\/em\u003eby way of \u003cem\u003eThe Shining, \u003c\/em\u003ea riveting account of one woman’s journey to the other side of the romantic fairy tale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“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.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom their first meeting, writer Danielle Trussoni is spellbound by a brilliant, mysterious novelist from Bulgaria. The two share a love of music and books and travel, passions that intensify their whirlwind romance. Within months, they are married and embark upon an adventurous life together. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEight years later, their marriage in trouble, Trussoni  and her husband move to the South of France, hoping to save their relationship. They discover Aubais (pronounced \u003cem\u003eobey\u003c\/em\u003e, as in \u003cem\u003elove, honor and . . . Aubais\u003c\/em\u003e), a picturesque medieval village in the Languedoc, where they buy a thirteenth-century stone fortress. Aubais is a Mediterranean paradise of sun, sea, and vineyards, but they soon learn the fortress’s secret history of subterranean chambers, Knights Templar, hidden treasure, Nazis, and ghosts. During her years in Aubais, Trussoni’s marriage unravels with terrifying consequences, and she comes to understand that love is never the way we imagine it to be. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrussoni’s time in France brings hard-won wisdom about authenticity, commitment, and family. Through her search for true happiness, Danielle Trussoni finds the strength to overcome her illusions and start again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnflinching and bold, \u003cem\u003eThe Fortress\u003c\/em\u003e is one woman’s struggle to understand the complexities of her own heart. Trussoni’s long-awaited return to memoir is a tour de force that changes the conversation about desire and freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eWith vivid eloquence and wrenching honesty, The Fortress lays bare one of the great mysteries of modern life: the secret emotional world of a failing marriage. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLev Grossman, bestselling author of The Magicians\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A memoir that reads like a fairy tale….entertaining.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A memoir that reads like a fairy tale….entertaining.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[The Fortress] is a powerful story, and Trussoni has the fortitude and judgment to do it justice.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[The Fortress] is a powerful story, and Trussoni has the fortitude and judgment to do it justice.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The Fortress is a bold book about the most intimate things. Danielle Trussoni’s clear-eyed examination of how she loved and lost her husband is both a page-turner and a profound meditation on the nature of desire and freedom in the modern age.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCheryl Strayed, bestselling author of Wild.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“From the moment Trussoni, author of the memoir \u003ci\u003eFalling through the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e (2006) and the popular Angelology fantasy series, met Nikolai, their attraction was singular and obsessive. 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