A spellbinding YA fantasy from #1 New York Times bestselling author
Kathryn Purdie, where fairy tales come to life with dark, deadly twists.
"Tell me again, Grandmère, the story of how I die."
The Midnight Forest. The Fanged Creature. Two fortune-telling cards that
spell an untimely death for 17-year-old Clara. Despite the ever-present
warning from her fortune-teller grandmother, Clara embarks on a
dangerous journey into the deadly Forest Grimm to procure a magical
book--Sortes Fortunae, the Book of Fortunes--with the power to reverse
the curse on her village and save her mother.
Years ago, when the villagers whispered their deepest desires to the
book, its pages revealed how to obtain them. All was well until someone
used the book for an evil purpose--to kill another person. Afterward,
the branches of the Forest Grimm snatched the book away, the well water
in Grimm's Hollow turned rancid, and the crops died from disease. The
villagers tried to make amends with the forest, but every time someone
crossed its border, they never returned.
Now, left with no alternative, Clara and her close friend, Axel--who is
fated never to be with her--have set their minds to defying fate and
daring to accomplish what no one else has been able to before. But the
forest--alive with dark, deadly twists on some of our most well-known
fairy tales--has a mind of its own.
