A Garden in Eden

In the beginning, there were five. Five lonely children with nothing to unite them except a love of the outdoors, running, climbing, and playing in the sunshine. Then a door appeared as if meant for them, a door to a destiny of being ten years old for one day, every five years, for the rest of their lives. Yet the garden of childhood could not solve their problems on the outside, nor provide a roadmap for the future. A place of innocence, of escape from grief, a place to play with the girl you're afraid to talk to on the outside.... A secret garden. *Their* secret garden.

A fountain of youth is for those who enter the door.

But only one day every five years, never a minute more.

Five years from yesterday, five friends return to play.

A moment captured in time, relived for just one day.

For as you enter this door transformed you will be,

to the age you first entered, then childhood eternally

Imagine what it would feel like to relive one day of your childhood every five years..... The sixth of July was a day that would change the course of the lives for ten-year-olds Ralphie, Daisy, Miles, Royal and Alexmarie. After accidentally stumbling upon a mysterious doorway in the middle of the forest, the five friends discovered a natural paradise which held the key to eternal youth, provided they return on exactly the same day every five years. As they embarked on the tumultuous journey of life, their fates became interwoven through grief, love, jealousy, infidelity and discord. Their one constant was the day they were allowed to live again in their ten-year-old bodies. Although this unique opportunity was an irresistible notion, its inhabitants could not shake the strong sense of foreboding that something sinister observed them as they played in their utopia. In a style that can be equated to a beautiful crossing between A Secret Garden and Peter Pan, Ellie Nicole Trotta guides young and old through a nostalgic and metaphorical journey that leaves readers longing for their own magical garden of youth.