Malice

About Malice

For readers who love fairy-tale retellings with a dark feminist edge and a slow-burn forbidden romance at their heart. Alyce is the last Vila — a cursed and feared creature in a kingdom where fairy beauty is prized above all. When she forms an unlikely bond with the kingdom's princess, she must choose between survival and something that might destroy her entirely. Heather Walter subverts the Sleeping Beauty myth from the inside, building a lush, morally complex world with a villain protagonist whose choices feel genuinely earned.

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