The Wild Series The next installment of Helaine’s story is already taking shape. Wild Mother, Wild Child is backlit by the tapestries The Lady and the Unicorn that hang in the Cluny Museum in Paris. And JS is playing with the Apocalypse tapestries housed in the Chateau Angers as inspiration for the final part of… Read More »1/13/25
As her father’s heir, Helaine is trying to disentangle political demands and religious beliefs. It’s a time of change, where the Medieval world is fading and the Renaissance is pushing at its heels. Helaine is bound by the subtle code of her love for her father and the… Read More »1/06/25
A glimpse of the main castle at Berzé le chatel with a wide expanse of gardens–there’s also an impressive entrance gateway that you can’t see here. You can just catch sight of one of the donjons of the curtain wall in the lower right corner. If you watched… Read More »12/30/24
A dark tale of magical realism set in the fifteenth century in the last chaotic years of the BurgundianCourt under Charles the Bold.For older young adults and any woman who has experienced the struggle to find herself Did you know? -The Chateau de Berzé le chalet dates back… Read More »WILD GIRL: HUNTING THE UNICORN
Wild Girl: Hunting the Unicorn Helaine’s story is based on the famous tapestries hanging in the Cloisters Museum in New York, woventogether with legends of Wild Men guarding herds of unicorns in the forests of medieval Europe. It is setin Berzé le chalet, a real castle, in a… Read More »The WILD SERIES
Helaine’s story is set in a real-life castle in France, at a time of political chaos under the rule of Charles the Bold (the Reckless), last Duke of Burgundy. Castles and villages, farms and vineyards were surrounded by vast stretches of forest inhabited by bandits, outlaws, wild men… Read More »12/24/24