Moonlight Desires: A Cinderella Retelling by David Tocher

Shunned by her stepfamily, nineteen-year-old Aurelia longs for a life she can finally call her own. Everything changes when she visits her mother’s grave and encounters Princess Kipira, an heiress cursed to live in the body of a spider. A prisoner of the dark forests, Kipira bears a malediction that thins the veil between life and death, echoing the trials of ancient fairy tales and Greek myths of bloody metamorphosis and wicked gods. From her webs arise quiet works of fantasy: a gown, slippers, and a horse-drawn carriage, their threads quickened by moonlight and inhabited by the restless spirits of Hades. Carried to Duke Andrew’s court festival, where jeweled crowns glint and his son must choose a bride, Aurelia steps into a world that finally sees her worth. Yet the curse gripping Kipira tightens, for she can only be freed through an act of true kindness, and even her best intentions are shadowed by self-interest. As romance awakens, fate begins to stir. Aurelia is about to discover that destiny is as fragile as threads of moonlit silk…and they are all woven into Read more