The Fortress: A Love Story

The critically acclaimed, bestselling author of and returns with this much-anticipated memoir of love and transformation in France. is Peter Mayle meets , a gorgeously written account of one woman's journey to the other side of the romantic fairytale. 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. 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. 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. An incisive look at romantic love, is one woman's fight to understand the complexities of her own heart, told by one of the best writers of her generation.