Alix E. Harrow

It's Zinnia Gray's twenty-first birthday, which is extra-special because it's the last birthday she'll ever have. When she was young, an industrial accident left Zinnia with a rare condition. Not much is known about her illness, just that no one has lived past twenty-one. Her best friend Charm is intent on making Zinnia's last birthday special with a full sleeping beauty experience, complete with a tower and a spinning wheel. But when Zinnia pricks her finger, something strange and unexpected happens, and she finds herself falling through worlds, with another sleeping beauty, just as desperate to escape her fate.

A Mirror Mended is the next installment in USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's Fractured Fables series. Zinnia Gray, professional fairy-tale fixer and lapsed Sleeping Beauty, is over rescuing snoring princesses. Once you’ve rescued a dozen damsels and burned fifty spindles, once you’ve gotten drunk with twenty good fairies and made out with one too many members of the royal family, you start to wish some of these girls would just get a grip and try solving their own narrative issues. Just when Zinnia’s beginning to think she can't handle one more princess, she glances into a mirror and sees another face looking back at her: the shockingly gorgeous face of evil, asking for her help. Because there’s more than one person trapped in a story they didn’t choose. Snow White's Evil Queen has found out how her story ends, and she's desperate for a better ending. She wants Zinnia to help her before it’s too late for everyone. Will Zinnia accept the Queen's poisonous request and save them both from the hot-iron shoes that wait for them, or will she try another path?

Oona's blood is a river delta blending east and west, her hair red as Tennessee clay, her heart tangled as the wild lands she maps. By tracing rivers in ink on paper, Oona pins the land down to one reality and betrays her people. Can she escape the bonds of gold and blood and bone that tie her to the Imperial American River Company? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place. Then she finds a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds, and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure and danger. Each page turn reveals impossible truths about the world and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own.

In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in Alix E. Harrow's powerful novel of magic and the suffragette movement. In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box. But when the Eastwood sisters -- James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonna -- join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women's movement into the witch's movement. Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote -- and perhaps not even to live -- the sisters will need to delve into the oldest magics, draw new alliances, and heal the bond between them if they want to survive. There's no such thing as witches. But there will be. An homage to the indomitable power and persistence of women, The Once and Future Witches reimagines stories of revolution, sapphic love, motherhood, and women's suffrage--the lost ways are calling.

Nel 1893 non esistono streghe. Un tempo sì, c'erano, negli oscuri giorni selvaggi prima che iniziassero i roghi, ma adesso la stregoneria è solo una questione di graziosi incantesimi e filastrocche e vecchi racconti per bambini. Se le donne vogliono avere una qualsivoglia forma di potere, devono cercarla nell'urna elettorale. Ma quando le sorelle Eastwood – James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth e Beatrice Belladonna – entrano nell'Associazione per le Donne di New Salem, iniziano a chiedersi se, recuperando antiche parole dimenticate, non sia possibile trasformare quello delle suffragette da un movimento di donne a un movimento di streghe. Inseguite da ombre e morbi, perseguitate da forze che vogliono impedire a una strega di votare – e forse persino di vivere –, le sorelle dovranno immergersi nell'antica magia, tessere nuove alleanze e recuperare il legame che le unisce. Perché le streghe non esistono, ma esisteranno. "Le streghe in eterno" è un racconto potente che parla di sfide, sorellanza, e del diritto di voto.

Imaginez qu'un jour, au milieu de nulle part, vous trouviez une Porte. Et que cette porte ouvre sur un monde inconnu. Un monde parallèle, d'où viendront votre destin, votre passé et votre futur. Voici January Ruddy, la découvreuse de portes, une curiosité en elle-même. Orpheline, gardée comme un objet précieux dans un manoir rempli d'autres objets précieux, une vie en lambeaux, pleine de trous. Et puis un livre, soudain, découvert par magie. Un livre fascinant, tout imprégné du parfum de l'aventure, qui relate l'étrange histoire des dix mille portes secrètes qui jalonnent le monde. L'étrange histoire du monde de l'Écrit… Une histoire semée d'embûches, mais si étroitement tressée à la sienne… Car January ne le sait pas encore, mais tout ce qui s'écrit, devient vrai.

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Starling House, Alix E. Harrow, comes a moving and genre-defying adventure through time – as a reluctant lady knight and a not-so-heroic-historian will fight through time and space to rewrite their tragic fates . . . and finally reveal the truths hidden beneath the greatest legend ever told. It begins where it ends: beneath the yew tree – a girl not yet a knight, and a boy without a story. It is where she pulls a sword from the heartwood and becomes a legend. And it is where, more than a thousand years later, he will find her – and lose her – and find her – and lose her again. It is where a new story will be written – but whose will it be?

The Saint of War spares the life of a servant girl so she can fulfill her destiny as the kingdom’s greatest warrior in this short story of love and loyalty by New York Times bestselling author Alix E. Harrow. Always mindful of the debt she owes, the girl finds her worth as a weapon in the hand of the Prince. Her victories make him a king, then an emperor. The bards sing her name and her enemies fear it. But the war never ends and the cost keeps rising—how many times will she repeat her own story?

In a contemporary retelling of the Orpheus myth, one lover descends into hell to retrieve another. Content warnings: Depicts suicide, suicidal ideation, depression, car accidents.

A grim and gothic new tale from author Alix E. Harrow about a small town haunted by secrets that can't stay buried and the sinister house that sits at the crossroads of it all. Eden, Kentucky, is just another dying, bad-luck town, known only for the legend of E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth-century author and illustrator who wrote The Underland--and disappeared. Before she vanished, Starling House appeared. But everyone agrees that it’s best to let the uncanny house―and its last lonely heir, Arthur Starling―go to rot. Opal knows better than to mess with haunted houses or brooding men, but an unexpected job offer might be a chance to get her brother out of Eden. Too quickly, though, Starling House starts to feel dangerously like something she’s never had: a home. As sinister forces converge on Starling House, Opal and Arthur are going to have to make a dire choice to dig up the buried secrets of the past and confront their own fears, or let Eden be taken over by literal nightmares. If Opal wants a home, she’ll have to fight for it.

In this dystopian fairy tale from the New York Times bestselling author of Starling House, a small town’s storyteller struggles to protect a local demon from the knight hired to kill it. Hundreds of years after the end of the world, the Appalachian community of Iron Hollow finds itself beset by demons. Such horrors are common these days in the outlands, where most folks die young—if they don’t turn into monsters first. When a legendary knight is summoned to hunt down the latest unearthly beast to haunt their woods, the town’s new oral historian, Shrike, has more reason than most to be concerned. Because that demon was her wife. And while Shrike is certain that May still recognizes her—that May is still herself, somewhere beneath it all—she can’t prove it. Determined to keep May safe, Shrike stalks the knight and his demon-hunting hawk through the recesses of the forest. But as they creep through toxic creeks and overgrown kudzu, Shrike realizes the knight has a secret of his own. And he’ll do anything to protect it.

Avant, quand l’air était si imprégné de magie qu’il laissait un goût de cendres sur la langue, les sorcières étaient féroces et intrépides, la magie flamboyait et la nuit leur appartenait. Ce temps n’est plus, les hommes ont dressé des bûchers, et les femmes ont appris à se taire, à dissimuler ce qui leur restait de magie dans des comptines, des formules à deux sous et des contes de bonne femme. Mais la vraie sorcellerie n’a besoin que de trois choses pour renaître : la volonté de l’écouter, les vers pour lui parler, et les voies pour la laisser pénétrer le monde. Car tout ce qui est important va par trois. Ainsi des sœurs Eastwood : Bella, Agnès et Genièvre. Mues par la colère, la peur... et une pulsation écarlate qui ne demande qu’à revivre, des dons qu’elles découvrent peu à peu. Il suffit pour cela de s’unir, et d’y croire, de traquer tous les interstices où elle se dissimule. Car la magie, c’est d’abord penser que chacun est libre d’agir, même si le mal rôde. Le temps des Sorcières pourrait alors bien revenir, pour notre plus grand bénéfice à tous, hommes et femmes.

Estate 1901. Un'antica dimora nel Vermont, piena di cose preziose e sorprendenti. La più peculiare è forse January Scaller, che vive nella casa sotto la tutela del facoltoso signor Locke. Peculiare e atipica, almeno, è come si sente lei: al pari dei vari manufatti che decorano la magione è infatti ben custodita, ampiamente ignorata, e soprattutto fuori posto. Suo padre lavora per Locke, va in giro per il mondo a raccogliere oggetti "di un valore singolare e unico", e per lunghi mesi la ragazzina rimane nella villa ridondante di reperti e stranezze, facendo impazzire le bambinaie e, soprattutto, rifugiandosi nelle storie. È così che, a sette anni, January trova una porta. Anzi, una Porta, attraverso cui si accede a mondi incantati che profumano di sabbia, di antico e di avventura... Sciocchezze da bambini. Fantasie assurde, le dicono gli adulti. E January si impegna con tutta se stessa per rinunciare a quei sogni di mari d'argento e città tinte di bianco. Per diventare grande, insomma. Fino al giorno in cui, ormai adolescente, non trova uno strano libriccino rilegato in pelle, con gli angoli consumati e il titolo stampigliato in oro semiconsunto: "Le diecim por". Un libro che ha l'aroma di cannella e carbone, catacombe e terra argillosa. E che porta il conforto di storie meravigliose nel momento in cui January viene a sapere che il padre è disperso da mesi. Probabilmente morto. Così la ragazza si tuffa in quella lettura che riaccende il turbine di sogni irrealizzabili. Ma lo sono davvero? Forse basta avere il coraggio di inseguirli, quei sogni, per farli diventare realtà. Perché pagina dopo pagina January si accorge che la vicenda narrata sembra essere indissolubilmente legata a lei...

New York Times bestselling author Alix E. Harrow weaves a dystopian fairy tale that follows the town storyteller as she struggles to protect a local demon from the knight hired to kill it. In this gritty, haunting tale about doing whatever it takes for love, a small-town storyteller resolves to keep the local monster—and her own secrets—safe from a legendary knight. Nestled deep in the steep hills, valleys, and surrounding woodlands lies Iron Hollow, a rural community beset by demons. Such horrors are common in the outlands, where most folks die young, if they don’t turn into monsters first. But what’s causing these transformations? No one has the answer, not even the town’s oral historian, seventeen-year-old Shrike. And when a legendary knight is summoned to hunt down the latest beast to haunt their woods, Shrike has more reason than most to be concerned. Because that demon was her wife. And while Shrike is certain that May still recognizes her—that May is still human, somewhere beneath it all—she can’t prove it. Determined to keep May safe, Shrike stalks the knight and his demon-hunting hawk through the recesses of the forest. But as they creep through toxic creeks and overgrown kudzu, Shrike realizes the knight has a secret of his own. And he’ll do anything to protect it.

En 1893 ya no hay brujas. En el pasado sí que las había, en esa época oscura e inhóspita antes de que empezasen a encenderse las hogueras. Ahora, la brujería es poco más que hechizos de amas de casa y canciones infantiles. Si la mujer moderna quiere algo de poder, las urnas son el único lugar donde puede llegar a conseguirlo. Pero James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth y Beatrice Belladonna, las hermanas Eastwood, se unen a las sufragistas de Nueva Salem y empiezan a buscar las palabras y los componentes olvidadas capaces de convertir la revolución de las mujeres en la revolución de las brujas. Las hermanas se verán acechadas por sombras y todo tipo de males, perseguidas por fuerzas que no tienen intención de permitir que las brujan voten, o que vivan siquiera, y tendrán que indagar en magia antigua, forjar nuevas alianzas y solucionar los problemas entre ellas si quieren sobrevivir. Ya no hay brujas. Pero las habrá.