Fractured Fables: Containing a Spindle Splintered and a Mirror Mended - Paperback

by Alix E. Harrow (Author)

"Implacable destiny is no match for courage, sisterhood, stubbornness, and a good working knowledge of fairy tales." --Katherine Arden, bestselling author of the Winternight trilogy, on A Spindle Splintered

Follow professional fairy tale fixer, Zinnia Gray, as she helps women get the endings they deserve! First, Sleeping Beauty in A Spindle Splintered, featuring Arthur Rackham's original illustrations for The Sleeping Beauty, fractured and reimagined. And then, Snow White's Evil Queen in A Mirror Mended!

In A Spindle Splintered, it's Zinnia Gray's twenty-first birthday. When she was young, an industrial accident left her with a rare condition and no one who has it has lived to twenty-two.

Her best friend is intent on making Zin's last birthday special with a full sleeping beauty experience, complete with a tower and a spinning wheel. But when Zinnia pricks her finger, she finds herself cast into another world, with another sleeping beauty, just as desperate to escape her fate.

Then, in A Mirror Mended, Zinnia discovers there's more than one person trapped in a story they didn't choose. Snow White's Evil Queen has found out how her story ends and she's desperate for a rewrite. Will Zinnia accept the queen's poisonous request for a rewrite and save them both from the hot iron shoes that wait for them? Or will she try another path?

Author Biography

Alix E. Harrow is the New York Times-bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January, The Once and Future Witches, Starling House, and various short fiction. A former Kentuckian, Harrow now lives in Virginia with her husband and their two semi-feral kids. Her latest novel is The Everlasting.