The Enchanted: A Novel

[Read by Jim Frangione]A wondrous and redemptive debut novel set in a stark world where evil and magic coincide, The Enchanted combines the empathy and lyricism of Alice Sebold with the dark, imaginative power of Stephen King. -- ''This is an enchanted place. Others don't see it, but I do.'' -- The enchanted place is an ancient stone prison, viewed through the eyes of a death row inmate who finds escape in his books and in reimagining life around him, weaving a fantastical story of the people he observes and the world he inhabits. Fearful and reclusive, he senses what others cannot. Though bars confine him every minute of every day, he marries visions of golden horses running beneath the prison, heat flowing like molten metal from their backs with the devastating violence of prison life. -- Two outsiders venture here: a fallen priest and the Lady, an investigator who searches for buried information from prisoners pasts that can save those soon to be executed. Digging into the background of a killer named York, she uncovers wrenching truths that challenge familiar notions of victim and criminal, innocence and guilt, honesty and corruption--ultimately revealing shocking secrets of her own. -- Beautiful and transcendent, The Enchanted reminds us of how our humanity connects us all, and how beauty and love exist even amid the most nightmarish reality.

About the Author

Rene Denfeld is an internationally bestselling author, journalist, mitigation specialist, and fact investigator in death penalty cases. She has written for the New York Times Magazine, the Oregonian, and the Philadelphia Inquirer and is the published author of several books, including the international bestseller The New Victorians, Kill the Body, The Head Will Fall, and All God's Children.

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