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Misrule

Misrule

Book Two of the Malice Duology

Summary

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Did they break the curse, or begin one? Sleeping Beauty's dark sorceress reclaims her story in this sequel to Malice


The Dark Grace is dead.

Feared and despised for the sinister power in her veins, Alyce has spent 100 years wreaking her revenge on the kingdom that made her an outcast. Once a realm of decadence and beauty, Briar is now wholly Alyce's wicked domain. No one escapes the consequences of her wrath.

Not even the one person who holds her heart.

Princess Aurora saw through Alyce's thorny facade, earning a love that promised the dawn of a new age. But that love came with a heavy price: Aurora now sleeps under a curse that even Alyce's vast power cannot seem to break, and their dream of the world they would have built together is nothing but ash.

Alyce vows to do anything to wake the woman she loves, even if it means descending into the monster Briar believed her to be. But could Aurora ever love the villain Alyce has become?

Or is true love only for fairy tales?

© Heather Walter 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

About the author

Heather Walter

Heather Walter is the award-winning author of THE CRIMSON CROWN and the MALICE duology. She holds degrees in both English and library science.
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