Creeping Beauty
About this ebook
The dark and deadly world of Heartless meets the empowering twist of Cruel Beauty in this thrilling, unpredictable, multigenre retelling of one of the most beloved fairy tales: where instead of falling asleep to await her prince, this sleeping beauty finally wakes up.
Bitsy is no one’s ideal princess.
She’s heard it all: that it’s a shame she’s so plain, so lacking in grace. That the best thing for her to do is simply wait (and wait some more) and hope some prince will grant her a happy ending.
Then Bitsy pricks her finger on a spindle and falls down, down, down.
Into a world where cutthroats and con artists are more common than curtsies. Where no one ages and everyone is beautiful. Where an inscrutable evil rests at its core.
A land where Bitsy’s fate and her future are solely in her own hands—and neither are what she expects.
What will she find in a world where fairy tales are nightmares?
- A Twisted Sleeping Beauty Retelling: Instead of a gentle slumber, Bitsy is plunged into a deadly world where waking up is only the beginning of the nightmare.
- A Fiercely Feminist Fairy Tale: This princess doesn’t need a prince. Labelled "plain" and "lacking," Bitsy discovers her own strength when she’s forced to carve out her own future.
- Trapped in a Dangerous New World: A land of eternal beauty, ageless inhabitants, and cutthroat secrets lurks beneath the surface, ruled by an inscrutable evil.
- High-Stakes YA Adventure: From shadowy swamps to a decadent, cruel city, Bitsy’s journey is a non-stop fight for survival full of unexpected allies and deadly enemies.
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About the author
Andrea Portes is the bestselling novelist of two critically lauded adult novels, Hick, her debut, which was made into a feature film starring Chloë Grace Moretz, Alec Baldwin, Blake Lively, Eddie Redmayne, and Juliette Lewis, and Bury This. Her first novel for young adult readers, Anatomy of a Misfit, was called “perfection in book form” by Teen Vogue. Her other YA novels include The Fall of Butterflies and Liberty: The Spy Who (Kind of) Liked Me. Andrea Portes’s spooky, timeless middle grade debut is Henry & Eva and the Castle on the Cliff.Andrea grew up on the outskirts of Lincoln, Nebraska. Later, she attended Bryn Mawr College. Currently she lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Sandy Tolan, their son, Wyatt, and their dog, Rascal. You can visit her online at www.andreaportes.squarespace.com.
