If you're looking for a great read over the school holidays, which are just around the corner, you should check out Three Wishes by Isabelle Merlin. Read on to find out more about the book, and enter our comp for your chance to win a book pack featuring Three Wishes plus 5 other must read books, thanks to Random House.

A modern day fairytale and an exciting thriller, this novel is perfect for lovers of Stephanie Meyer and Meg Cabot.

Silver shoes, a French castle, a dark mystery and a thrilling love triangle.

When Rose creates a blog for an English assignment, she doesn't realise it will soon change her life. When an elegant stranger arrives to announce that Rose has an aristocratic French grandfather who would like to meet her, Rose believes it's a wish come true and travels to France to find that her grandfather lives in a magnificent castle.

Utterly enchanted, she grows to love her new life - and Charlie, a charming boy equally besotted with Rose.

But as Rose begins to delve deeper into her family's past, her fairytale soon turns into a nightmare as she has to decide, who is friend? Who is foe? Someone wants her dead. And she must find out who before their deadly wish comes true!

With a burning desire to re-create the enjoyment and thrill of reading she had as a teen, Isabelle Merlin draws inspiration from favourite fairytales, medieval legends and drama to create the wonderfully vivid mystery of Three Wishes. She has also updated and modernised the genre with the inclusion of online blogs to extend the story and characters. With these inclusions Isabelle provides a reading experience that can be enjoyed on and off the page.

Three Wishes is the first in an enchanting new series which will feature spellbinding tales of real life magic with a glamorous French twist and a fresh modern gloss!

RRP $16.95

Random House Book Buddies have been raving about this book:
'I have never read anything like it. I loved this story, I couldn't stop reading.' Brigitte, age 12
'It was enthralling once the suspense had started. It kept me guessing and I didn't feel like putting it down.' Olivia, age 12

Author bio:
The first stories Isabelle Merlin remembers are the traditional fairy tales told to her by her French grandmother. Later, she heard family stories, which proved to her that magic and romance and terror don't only appear in fairytales: like the romantic story of the beautiful ancestor who caught the eye of the Sun-King, Louis XIV; or the amazing story of the wily ancestor who went from being a poor peasant to a multi-millionaire; or the tragic story of the curse of madness and misfortune that pursued other ancestors; or the spooky story of the chain-rattling ghost that haunted the family home deep in the green countryside of France. It's no wonder that she grew up with a head full of stories and a burning desire to become a writer. Isabelle lives in Australia with her family.