Snow White Queen
“Once upon a time in midwinter, when the snowflakes were falling like feathers from heaven...”
Snow White wakes up in the snow next to a corpse, clutching a bloody knife. She remembers a smiling man hunting her through the woods. Her memories are otherwise full of holes.
Seeking clues to her past, Snow White (Isa) wipes the blood from her hands and escapes the forest to find a world completely unlike the one in her scattered memories. Villages fend off mysterious attacks from the forest. Knights with metal faces rampage across the countryside. Even the squirrels are wrong—she's pretty sure they didn’t drink blood before.
She almost convinces herself she's still the timid girl who was desperate to earn her mother’s love after her father abandoned them. That works … right up until she incapacitates a man with a few brutal moves and his own knife.
When Isa learns that the queen has ordered her death, she suspects that her own violent tendencies are the cause. After all, there must be more to losing her mother’s love than a magic mirror. The key to saving herself lies with that bloody corpse, locked somewhere in Isa’s memories. But the more she recalls, the more she realizes the worst monsters don't live in the woods.
They're the people we love.
SNOW WHITE QUEEN is a fantasy novel that I am currently submitting to literary agents in the hopes of getting published. It is the first in a series.