From the bestselling author of Anatomy of a Misfit comes a
subversive and feminist take on Sleeping Beauty, sure to appeal to
fans of Damsel and To Kill a Kingdom.
The dark and deadly world of Heartless meets the empowering twist of
Cruel Beauty in this thrilling, unpredictable, multigenre retelling of
one of the most beloved fairy tales: where instead of falling asleep to
await her prince, this sleeping beauty finally wakes up.
Bitsy is no one's ideal princess.
She's heard it all: that it's a shame she's so plain, so lacking in
grace. That the best thing for her to do is simply wait (and wait some
more) and hope some prince will grant her a happy ending.
Then Bitsy pricks her finger on a spindle and falls down, down,
down.
Into a world where cutthroats and con artists are more common than
curtsies. Where no one ages and everyone is beautiful. Where an
inscrutable evil rests at its core.
A land where Bitsy's fate and her future are solely in her own
hands--and neither are what she expects.