Never Afters

<p class=ql-align-center><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>You already know part of their stories. This is what happens next.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In Never Afters Kristyn McDermott</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>upends everything we know about fairy tales by asking a simple question: what happens to the heroines after their tales are over?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>An aging Gretel runs a bakery in a remote town enduring the antics of her drunken brother and the siren song of the witch's grimoire searching for a new witch.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Bluebeard's seventh bride survives his reign of terror but now occupies a manor filled with ghostly wives who crave vengeance. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Queen Cinderella is exiled in her own palace replaced by a younger prettier girl who can bear her King an heir. Through her journals she charts how she lost her power...and what she'll do to regain it. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Rapunzel confronts the trauma and sorrow of a childhood locked in a tower when she learns Mother Gothel is dead while Beauty and her once beastly husband find themselves estranged as their passion dwindles. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Red Riding Hood discovers a long-kept family secret while Snow White learns her prince is less charming than he first appeared. </span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Dark powerful and brimming with magic the seven stories in this collection weave a reimagined world in which fairy-tale girls grow up to find both love and heartbreak family and friendship and moments of loss and forgiveness.</strong></p>