Finding the Magic: A Novella E-Book

Jack Lewis Baillot

• Herausgeber: Dove Christian Publishers
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

In 1940s London during World War II, teenager Belle Maurice is sent to the London countryside to escape the bombings in the city. She knows she will miss her mother and worry about her father, who is away fighting in the war, but she has no idea what awaits her in the manor where she is to live. She finds friends with the staff, but the mysterious and elusive master of the house, Mr. Prince, frightens her. What would she make of this man, who appeared only for dinner and disappeared into his room at other times? Would he be like the dreaded Bluebeard in Beauty and the Beast, bringing girls to his mansion only to kill them in a cellar? Should she steer clear of him, or reject her fear and reach out to him? Having prayed that God would help her see the beauty in the world and other people, she knew she had a daunting dilemma.

Finding the Magic is a novella that poses a question: Can Belle teach Mr. Prince to find the magic in a world where all magic seems to be long gone? 
 

Leseprobe

Finding the

Magic

Jack Lewis Baillot

Bladensburg, Maryland

Finding the Magic

Published by

Dove Christian Publishers

P.O. Box 611

Bladensburg, MD 20710-0611

www.dovechristianpublishing.com

Copyright © 2018 by Jack Lewis Baillot

Cover Design by Mark Yearnings

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Finding the

Magic

To my very special little friends:

It’s because of you I’ve never stopped searching for magic

“In the beginning, Beauty was frightened of the Beast and shuddered at the sight of it. Then she found that, in spite of the monster’s awful head, her horror of it was gradually fading as time went by. She had one of the finest rooms in the Castle, and sat for hours, embroidering in front of the fire. And the Beast would sit, for hours on end, only a short distance away, silently gazing at her. Then it started to say a few kind words, till, in the end, Beauty was amazed to discover that she was actually enjoying its conversation. The days passed, and Beauty and the Beast became good friends.”

~From Beauty and the Beast (1740)

Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve

One

~1940~

Belle woke to the soft creaking of the house. She had grown up listening to creaks and groans, but these were new and foreign. She pulled her blanket down from over her head but kept her eyes closed as she listened. The cool air in the room nipped at her nose, but Belle didn’t mind. She could still pretend, as long as she kept her eyes closed, that she was still in her apartment back home. She could pretend there wasn’t a war and that she still lived a normal life where her mum made breakfast every morning while her dad dressed for work. She smiled and rolled over; the motion caused her to open her eyes.

She now faced a large window. The window reminded Belle she wasn’t in the apartment with her parents, living in the middle of London. She’d been sent to the countryside, to hide from the German air raids. She had arrived the night before and had barely been able to make out the large, castle-like mansion she would be staying at until it was safe to return home to her mum.

If it were ever safe to return to her mum and if she had a home to return to. So many homes had already been bombed, so many parents already killed.