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Book Bag: The Best Imaginary Castles

Unreal Estate

Who says our most beloved places have to be real? Novelist Johanna Lane lists several favorite moated-and-turreted locations that only ever existed in the authors’ minds.

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I’ve always loved books in which the place the characters live plays as much of a role in the narrative as the characters themselves. So when I came up with the idea for my first novel, Black

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