The Wildest Things

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. Agent: Victoria Marini, Highline Literary. (Feb.)