"A brilliant achievement."

—Boston Herald

"Entertaining...profound....A novel for adults that unearths our buried fascination with the primal fears and truths fairy tales contain."
—Christian Science Monitor

Gregory Maguire, the acclaimed author who re-imagined a darker, more dangerous Land of Oz in his New York Times bestselling series The Wicked Years, offers a brilliant reinvention of the timeless

What if the Evil Queen poisoned the prince?

Following her beloved mother's death, Snow White's kingdom falls into the hands of her stepmother, commonly referred to as the "Evil Queen" by those she rules. Snow keeps her head down at the castle, hoping to make the best of her situation.

But when a plot to kill her goes awry, everything changes for Snow. With the help of a group of wary dwarfs, a kind prince she thought she'd never see