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Malice / Heather Walter.
"Heather Walter is a native southerner who hates the heat. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, she is both a former English teacher and a current librarian"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9781984818669
- ISBN: 198481866X
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Del Rey, 2021.
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| Subject: | Lesbians > Fiction. Lesbiennes > Romans, nouvelles, etc. Lesbians. |
| Genre: | Fantasy fiction. Fiction. Fantasy fiction. |
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- Baker & Taylor
"Heather Walter is a native southerner who hates the heat. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, she is both a former English teacher and a current librarian"-- - Random House, Inc.
A princess isnât supposed to fall for an evil sorceress. But in this âbewitching and fascinatingâ (Tamora Pierce) retelling of âSleeping Beauty,â true love is more than a simple fairy tale.
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âWalterâs spellbinding debut is for all the queer girls and women whoâve been told to keep their gifts hidden and for those yearning to defy gravity.ââO: The Oprah Magazine
Once upon a time, there was a wicked fairy who, in an act of vengeance, cursed a line of princesses to die. A curse that could only be broken by true loveâs kiss.
Youâve heard this before, havenât you? The handsome prince. The happily ever after.
Utter nonsense.
Let me tell you, no one in Briar actually cares about what happens to its princesses. Not the way they care about their jewels and elaborate parties and charm-granting elixirs. I thought I didnât care, either.
Until I met her.
Princess Aurora. The last heir to Briarâs throne. Kind. Gracious. The future queen her realm needs. One who isnât bothered that I am Alyce, the Dark Grace, abhorred and feared for the mysterious dark magic that runs in my veins. Humiliated and shamed by the same nobles who pay me to bottle hexes and then brand me a monster. Aurora says I should be proud of my gifts. That she . . . cares for me. Even though a power like mine was responsible for her curse.
But with less than a year until that curse will kill her, any future I might see with Aurora is swiftly disintegratingâand she canât stand to kiss yet another insipid prince. I want to help her. If my power began her curse, perhaps itâs what can lift it. Perhaps together we could forge a new world.
Nonsense again. Because we all know how this story ends, donât we? Aurora is the beautiful princess. And Iâ
I am the villain.
Book One of the Malice Duology
