'In that case, is your wife going to have an accident? It’d be a shame if that first step down to your cellar suddenly came loose.' I’m hearing the girls in this year’s group are the prettiest lot in a generation. If the king found out, it’d be my head on a pike.

I fell asleep in the tower last night, one of them says. I meet her gaze across the wide swath of carriage pathway that separates us. Her eyes grow wide in the shadowy confines of the forest. They stop a few feet from where she’s hiding. The palace guards don’t see her yet, but they are headed her way. The only thing I’m focused on is Erin, who is pressed up against a tree directly across from me.

When the palace guards find me, and they will, I am going to die in the forest on Lille’s eastern border.

I’ve been in love with Erin for the better part of three years.Īnd I am about two minutes away from certain death. And there she meets someone who will show her that she has the power to remake her world …Īn electrifying twist on the classic fairytale that will inspire girls to break out of limiting stereotypes and follow their dreams! Read moreĬinderella has been dead for two hundred years. Alone and terrified, she finds herself hiding in Cinderella's tomb. And when Sophia's night at the ball goes horribly wrong, she must run for her life. For the lives of those not chosen by a man at the ball … are forfeit.īut Sophia doesn't want to be chosen – she's in love with her best friend, Erin, and hates the idea of being traded like cattle. And every girl knows that she has only one chance. Because every girl has to recite it daily, from when she's tiny until the night she's sent to the royal ball for choosing. Sophia knows the story though, off by heart. It's 200 years since Cinderella found her prince, but the fairytale is over. 'An intense experience, but a captivating one' - Paper Lanterns Magazine

relevant, modern and inclusive' - NetGalley Reviewer She breaks it apart and rebuilds it into a wholly original and captivating story where girls finally decide for themselves who lives happily ever after' - New York Times bestselling author Brigid Kemmerer 'Kalynn Bayron does more than re-write a fairytale.

Cinderella is dead by kalynn bayron