We all know the story of Sleeping Beauty, a beautiful princess cursed to sleep for a hundred years before being awoken by true love’s kiss. But we don’t really know the story behind the wicked fairy who cursed the princess. Malice artfully and fascinatingly presents her backstory and a whole world to go with it. Alyce is neither human nor fae and definitely not a Grace, a human child blessed by the fae with magic blood. But she was raised by a former Grace, so peddles her dark magic alongside her sister Graces’ magic of wisdom, beauty, and charm. Ugly compared to the Graces, she’s avoided unless someone desperately needs what only she can offer. But Alyce longs for more, for better. Aurora is the last remaining crown princess. Doomed to die on her twenty-first birthday if her true love doesn’t kiss her beforehand, she seeks out Alyce’s dark magic in the hopes it’ll help her break the curse. But something blossoms between the unwanted Dark Grace and the beautiful and entirely unexpected princess.

ISBN: 9781984818676