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The Lost Story: A Novel
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Summary and Study Guide
Overview
The Lost Story (2024) is a fantasy novel by Meg Shaffer, inspired by C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia series. The story follows longtime friends Jeremy Cox and Rafe Howell, who vanished into a hidden kingdom in the forests of West Virginia during their youth. Now adults, Jeremy and Rafe are pulled back into the mysteries of their past by Emilie Wendel, a woman whose quest to find her missing sister uncovers long-buried secrets and forces the men to confront the magical world they once escaped.
This guide refers to the Arcadia Books 2024 Kindle edition.
Content Warning: The source text and this guide discuss kidnapping, child abuse, death by suicide, death of a parent, and anti-LGBTQ+ bias.
Plot Summary
Best friends Ralph “Rafe” Howell and Jeremy Cox get lost inside West Virginia’s dense Red Crow Forest after Rafe has a bitter fight with his father, only to return six months later. When they return, the 14-year-old boys are miraculously healthier and taller. Rafe has no memory of what happened to them in the woods, though he has long scars all over his back, while Jeremy claims that they survived in the woods on their own.
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