Lyn Cook’s newest book takes place during the second siege of the Fortress of Louisbourg, 1757. Like many of her previous books the story began as a tribute to a beloved place, which Lyn Cook watched grow from a neglected pile of rubble to on of the most exciting living museums in North American. The Fortress of Louisbourg was once the bustling gateway to a string of prosperous New World settlements. In 1713 it became the battleground in a winner-take-all war between French and English. The prize? A trade monopoly in the natural resource all of Europe was begging for.

Caught in the crossfire were the citizens of Louisbourg, their wives and their children: merchants, shipwrights, adventurers, and settlers, tinkers, soldiers and spies. In Flight from the Fortress, a French boy comes looking for his English father, a spy for the British. He meets Gaby, a young girl caring for two orphaned infants, and together, they decide to flee the fortress, and find refuge in the forests beyond. As they travel, Philippe’s care for Gaby and her charges grows, but never extinguishes his hope of finding his father. He will suffer many dangers and disappointments before he is ready, like Gaby, to take the way out offered him.

שם הספר
Flight from the Fortress