Enchanter's Castle Book

The wild mountain country of North Wales was a foreign and barbaric land to most English people in 1798, even though poets wrote of the romantic beauty of 'bottomless pools and horrid gorges'. Perdita Draycott, who had never travelled outside London in all her seventeen years, found the mail coach journey across England, their stormy arrival at Dinas Pennant, and her first meeting with her two headstrong young charges, awe inspiring enough. Before long she became aware of an undercurrent of mystery which involved everyone at the castle. Her impoverished but arrogant employer Sir Garteth Glynn Owen was haunted by the circumstances of his father's death, the people on the estate looked askance at the fair haired English girl who could not understand their language, and there was the ancient legend of the accursed gold, hidden deep in the mountains...Read More