Creeping Beauty

From the bestselling author ofAnatomy of a Misfitcomes a subversive and feminist take onSleeping Beauty,sure to appeal to fans ofDamselandTo Kill a Kingdom. The dark and deadly world ofHeartlessmeets the empowering twist ofCruel Beautyin 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.