A brief history of Montmaray / Cooper, Michelle

On her sixteenth birthday in 1936, Sophia begins a diary of life in a fictional island country off the coast of Spain, where she is among the last descendants of an impoverished royal family trying to hold their nation together on the eve of the second World War.

On her sixteenth birthday in 1936, Sophia begins a diary of life in her island country off the coast of Spain, where she is among the last descendants of an impoverished royal family trying to hold their nation together on the eve of the Second World War.

In 1936 sixteen-year-old Sophie lives in a crumbling castle in the island kingdom of Montmaray. The rumblings of war seem remote in Montmaray until two German officers land there. Then Sophie, her sister, her cousin, and her uncle must try to hold on to their home.