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by D. B. Gilles (Author)
17-year-old Juliet Pine is one of three teens in a single-engine plane on their way to a summer internship, six weeks before starting college. While flying over a huge, private nature reserve in upstate New York, the pilot has a heart attack, loses control and crashes into the treetops. Juliet, knocked unconscious, is the only survivor.
When she comes to, someone is trying to rescue her. But when she realizes who it is, she's dumbfounded and terrified--
It's a 13-foot tall giant!
His name is Damian, also 17. To her shock, he's intelligent and speaks perfect English. In fact, he speaks the King's English. After saving her, Damian takes her to the cave where he lives with his uncle (also a giant). He tells her she will be there for the rest of her life because the reserve is inescapable. This news devastates her. But Juliet is a determined young woman and she is hell-bent on finding a way to escape.
What Juliet will learn is that she has crashed in a sanctuary controlled by the Catholic Church. It is where the last race of giants, who long ago populated the world, has been kept as prisoners for 150 plus years.
Also living in the nature preserve are normal-sized people, each of whom got there by freak natural accidents or, like Juliet, in a plane crash. One of them, Trevor, craving a companion and lover, pursues her.
Juliet takes an instant dislike to him, but she relates to Damian. He likes her too. Despite their sizes, they start to fall in love. Realizing how determined she is to escape, he tells her his secret -- he has found a way out, but he needs her help.
He also tells her the origin story of the giants and reveals a secret that his mother told him. There's another place
where giants live, in France. He wants to go there. She agrees to help him escape and within one week of her arrival, they make their break, only to be pursued by a man who is descended from generations of giant hunters.
Will Juliet reclaim her life? Will Damian escape and get to France?
