Maire Solanya, the village greenwitch, came that evening to perform the old rituals over the grave. She was buried three days later beneath the hawthorn tree behind the house, just as twilight was darkening She had fallen sick so suddenly that some of the villagers wondered if the fairies had come and taken her, for she was still Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidentalĪ isling's mother died at midsummer. The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious.

The Little, Brown name and logo are trademarks of Hachette Book Group, Inc. Little, Brown and Company is a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced,ĭistributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written But Sidhean has already claimed Ash for his own, and she must make a choice between fairy tale dreams and true love.Įntrancing and empowering, Ash beautifully unfolds the connections between life and love, and solitude and death, where transformation can come from even the deepest grief. Their friendship, as delicate as a new bloom, reawakens Ash's capacity for love–and her desire to live. Instead of chasing fairies, Ash learns to hunt with Kaisa. The day that Ash meets Kaisa, the King's Huntress, her heart begins to change. When she meets the dark and dangerous fairy Sidhean, she believes that her wish may be granted. In her dreams, someday the fairies will steal her away. Consumed by grief, her only joy comes by the light of the dying hearth fire, rereading the fairy tales her mother once told her.

In the wake of her father's death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. The haunting, romantic lesbian retelling of Cinderella and modern queer classic by award-winning author Malinda Lo–now with an introduction by Holly Black, a letter from the author, a Q&A, and more!

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