The Wildest Things
A Novel
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Publisher Description
In this sapphic Snow White retelling, if Snow is to save her kingdom from being ravaged by the Blight, she’ll have to kill the Evil Queen’s daughter…if she doesn’t fall in love with her first.
When her glass coffin unexpectedly shatters, Snow White awakens to anything but a dream. The land is rotting. The animals have mutated. In the twenty years that have passed since Snow bit into the poisoned apple, the kingdom of Roanfrost has transformed from a luscious wild land to a blight-ravaged nightmare. In search of answers and a way to restore her kingdom to its former glory, Snow sets out on a dangerous journey that will test the strength she never knew she had.
Friends will become foes.
New alliances will form.
The Queen with the blood red lips will stop at nothing to seize her power as well as her heart.
If Snow has any chance to survive and restore not only her kingdom, but all of Garedenne, her only option is to become the Seasonkeeper and access the life-giving magic that will heal the plague. But the path to becoming the Seasonkeeper is more treacherous than she could ever imagine—because the wild things have awakened and Snow’s darker impulses yearn to set them free.
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Following 20 years of deathlike slumber in an enchanted glass coffin, Snow White, princess of Roanfrost, awakens to a changed world. Her father and stepmother are dead, and the kingdom has been ravaged by the Blight, a magical phenomenon marked by changing climate, rampant disease, and dangerously mutated wildlife. As Snow reconciles her memories with her new reality, her long-dormant magic begins to manifest in unexpected ways, and she is haunted by visions of a beautiful girl with a cruel smile. Snow soon realizes that to bring nature back into balance, she must depose Queen Iliana—the girl from her visions—and take her rightful place as the ruler of Roanfrost. But even as Iliana concocts increasingly elaborate and deadly ploys to maintain her power, Snow struggles to ignore their magnetic attraction. Using richly descriptive prose, Hannah (Where Darkness Blooms) reimagines the story of Snow White in a labyrinthine high-fantasy world of dark magic, greed, and suppressed sapphic longing. Via Snow's first-person narration and third-person interludes from Iliana's enchanted mirror, Hannah delivers on a slow-burning tale of desire and nature that lightly explores themes of misogyny. Characters cue as white. Ages 13–up.
