The King's Puzzle
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Are you ready for something fresh and different in a young adult novel?
The six-part serial entitled The King's Puzzle combines strong character relationships with a riveting storyline.
A pair of 16-year-old homeschoolers, Angus and Amanda, attempt to solve a mystery within a mystery. A treasure hunt, a love triangle, a cold case going back to 1939. A coming-of-age saga. One or more villains, in the shadows. And not the usual suspects.
In The King's Puzzle, Angus and Amanda come up a myriad of enemies who try to prevent them from solving the mystery that presents itself in the opening scene:
A letter from Buckingham Palace states that Angus's grandfather, at the age of ten in 1939, fashioned a treasure hunt for King George VI to solve while touring Canada by train that year. To obtain the treasure, The King needed to solve a number of homemade puzzles. The mystery, which Her Majesty The Queen would like solved on behalf of her late father, is why Angus's grandfather failed to keep a rendezvous with The King at a Royal Train stop in Ontario.
The setting for The King's Puzzle is a rural estate in Ontario, amid maple trees, a trout stream, and a Canadian Pacific Railway line that meanders through the hills. Secluded, quiet-and threatened by a wind turbine development. The female politician who owns the property is in trouble at the hands of the same cast plaguing Angus and Amanda. In fact, she seeks their help in solving her own 1939 family mystery, linked to The King's Puzzle, which is when the teens' problems magnify.
Throughout the story, the lingering question that penetrates Angus's and Amanda's imaginations is-why did his ten-year-old grandfather fail to meet The King in 1939?
To find out why attempting to solve a family mystery at the behest of the head of the Royal Family-and Canada's head of state-unleashes the fury of the establishment on a pair of homeschooled 16-year-olds, start reading The King's Puzzle, Book 1.
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