"The Storyteller Queen lives, and her name is E. K. Johnston." --
Rachel Hartman, New York Times best-selling author of Seraphina
The follow-up to A Thousand Nights, Spindle is the feminist
retelling of Sleeping Beauty where the princess saves herself and owns
the narrative.
The prison is crumbling. Through years of careful manipulation, a demon
has regained her power. She has made one kingdom strong and brought the
other to its knees, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. When a
princess is born, the demon is ready with the final blow: a curse that
will cost the princess her very soul, or force her to destroy her own
people to save her life.
The threads of magic are tightly spun, binding princess and exiled
spinners into a desperate plot to break the curse before the demon can
become a queen of men. But the web of power is dangerously tangled --
and they may not see the true pattern until it is unspooled.