Ever Cursed

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Ideal for fans of Jennifer Donnellys Stepsister. Booklist

Damsel meets A Heart in a Body in the World in this incisive and lyrical feminist fairy tale about a princess determined to save her sisters from a curse, even if it means allying herself with the very witch who cast it.

The Princesses of Ever are beloved by the kingdom and their father, the King. They are cherished, admired.

Cursed.

Jane, Alice, Nora, Grace, and Eden carry the burden of being punished for a crime they did not commit, or even know about. They are each cursed to be Without one essential thingthe ability to eat, sleep, love, remember, or hope. And their mother, the Queen, is imprisoned, frozen in time in an unbreakable glass box.

But when Edens curse sets in on her thirteenth birthday, the princesses are given the opportunity to break the curse, preventing it from becoming a True Spell and dooming the princesses for life. To do this, they must confront the one who cast the spellReagan, a young witch who might not be the villain they thoughtas well as the wickedness plaguing their own kingdomand family.

Told through the eyes of Reagan and Janethe witch and the bewitchedthis insightful twist of a fairy tale explores power in a patriarchal kingdom not unlike our own.

Author Bio

Corey Ann Haydu is the author ofOCD Love Story,Rules for Stealing Stars,Eventown, and several other critically acclaimed young adult and childrens novels. She currently teaches at the MFA Writing for Children program at Vermont College of Fine Arts and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and daughter. Learn more at CoreyAnnHaydu.com.