Ever After Nevermore: Dark Retellings of Classic Fairy Tales

You know how these stories end. Or do you?

Everyone knows Snow White gets her prince. Cinderella escapes her stepmother. The Little Mermaid sacrifices everything for love. But what if Red Riding Hood doesn't fear the Wolf and Snow White makes a deal and becomes something that terrifies even her stepmother.

The Glass Coffin (Snow White retelling) - When kitchen maid Śnieżka reveals herself as the embodiment of winter itself, Countess Morana's attempts to murder her become the very ritual that sets her free. Enter a vampire prince seeking to break his three-hundred-year curse, he wasn't looking for love, but winter's queen might be the only creature powerful enough to save him.

The Ash Girl's Bargain (Cinderella retelling) - For seven years, Ella has been invisible, degraded, treated like ash. When the hazel tree growing from her mother's grave offers her three nights of devastating beauty, she discovers the prince isn't choosing a bride, he's hunting for a woman magical enough to destroy the creature he's served for centuries. The price? Her humanity. The reward? Becoming a queen powerful enough to burn her old life to the ground.

The Wolf's Bride (Red Riding Hood retelling) - Scarlett was bargained away before she was born, payment for her grandmother's debt to the Wolf of Schwarzwald. But he doesn't want a sacrifice. He wants a mate. Someone fierce enough to help him guard the boundary between worlds. Someone brave enough to choose the monster over the man. As the bond between them grows unbearable, she must choose: remain safely human, or embrace the wild thing she's always been and claim him back.

Eight stories. Eight monsters who found their match.