Publisher:
Touchstone
Release
Date: August 6th, 2013
Synopsis via Goodreads:
What if Rapunzel was Snow White’s
evil stepmother? From the author of Godmother and Mermaid, The Fairest of
Them All explores what happens when fairy tale heroines grow up and don’t
live happily ever after.
Living in an enchanted forest,
Rapunzel spends her days tending a mystical garden with her adoptive mother,
Mathena. A witch, Mathena was banished from court because of her magic powers,
though the women from the kingdom still seek her advice and herbal remedies.
She waits, biding her time to exact revenge against those who betrayed her.
One day Rapunzel’s beautiful voice
and long golden locks captivate a young prince hunting in the forest nearby.
Overcome, he climbs her hair up to her chamber and they fall into each other’s
arms. But their afternoon of passion is fleeting, and the prince must return to
his kingdom, as he is betrothed to another.
Now king, he marries his intended
to bring peace to his kingdom. They have a stunning daughter named Snow White.
Yet the king is haunted by his memories of Rapunzel, and after the mysterious
death of his wife, realizes he is free to marry the woman he never stopped longing
for. In hopes of also replacing the mother of his beloved daughter, the king
makes Rapunzel his queen.
But when Mathena’s wedding gift of
an ancient mirror begins speaking to her, Rapunzel falls under its evil spell,
and the king begins to realize that Rapunzel is not the beautiful, kind woman
he
dreamed of.
dreamed of.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Carolyn Turgeon is the author of five novels: Rain Village (2006), Godmother: The Secret Cinderella Story (2009), Mermaid (2011), which is being developed for film by Sony Pictures, and The Next Full Moon (2012), her first and only book for middle-grade readers. Her latest novel, The Fairest of Them All, comes out in August 2013 from Touchstone/Simon & Schuster and is about Rapunzel growing up to be Snow White's stepmother. She lives in Pennsylvania and New York and teaches fiction writing at the University of Alaska at Anchorage's Low-Residency MFA program. She's currently at work on a new novel about Dante's Beatrice, set in thirteenth-century Florence.
Visit Carolyn's mermaid blog at http://iamamermaid.com/
WEBSITE: http://carolynturgeon.com
TWITTER: https://twitter.com/carolynturgeon
GIVEAWAY
*The giveaway will be international*
(1) Signed paperback of The Fairest Of Them All by
Carolyn Turgeon.
