Alix E Harrow

In the early 1900s, a young woman embarks on a fantastical journey of self-discovery after finding a mysterious book in this captivating and lyrical debut. In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place. Then she finds a strange book....

Eden, Kentucky, is just another dying, bad-luck town, known only for the legend of E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth-century author and illustrator who wrote "The Underland" -- and disappeared. Before she vanished, Starling House appeared. But everyone agrees that it's best to let the uncanny house and its last lonely heir, Arthur Starling go to rot ... Opal is a lot of things--orphan, high school dropout, full-time cynic and part-time cashier--but...

"Zinnia Gray, professional fairy-tale fixer and lapsed Sleeping Beauty is over rescuing snoring princesses. Once you've rescued a dozen damsels and burned fifty spindles, once you've gotten drunk with twenty good fairies and made out with one too many members of the royal family, you start to wish some of these girls would just get a grip and try solving their own narrative issues. Just when Zinnia's beginning to think she can't handle one more princess,...

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...

A fines del siglo XIX, tres hermanas usan la brujería para cambiar el curso de la historia en la poderosa novela de magia y el movimiento sufragista de Alix E. Harrow. En 1893, no existen las brujas. Solía haber, en la naturaleza, días oscuros antes de que comenzaran las quemas, pero ahora la brujería no es más que amuletos ordenados y canciones infantiles. Si la mujer moderna quiere alguna medida de poder, debe encontrarla en las urnas. Pero...

"A Mirror Mended is the next installment in USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's Fractured Fables series. Zinnia Gray, professional fairy-tale fixer and lapsed Sleeping Beauty is over rescuing snoring princesses. Once you've rescued a dozen damsels and burned fifty spindles, once you've gotten drunk with twenty good fairies and made out with one too many members of the royal family, you start to wish some of these girls would just get a grip...

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial by Jason Sizemore
ORIGINAL FICTION
Root Rot by Fargo Tbakhi
Your Own Undoing by P H Lee
Love, That Hungry Thing by Cassandra Khaw
Mr. Death by Alix E. Harrow
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