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The people of the Seven Demesnes live in unease. Every generation, seven sons are born to rule their seven walled cities. Without them, mankind is fated to fall. Now, something is killing them before they can be born. When Iminique Demascus senses a nameless evil striking at the unborn royal children, she has to make a choice. A noblewoman and a healer in a world where aristocrats and mages belong to different castes, she is forbidden by her father to ever heal. Breaking his dictate, she saves a single girl child. No one thanks her. Neither the child's parents nor the people want a girl, reviling her for surviving when the males perished. Left as the princess's sole protector and faced with adversity and hostility from nearly every quarter, Iminique allies herself with the wizard who once dragged her to the brink of death and then inexplicably let her go; a wizard who has his own secret agenda and casts spells that should be impossible. Meanwhile, in the south, a young sorceress falls prey to an ancient enemy, one weaving his own plans for bringing mankind to its knees.

How do you break a villain’s heart? The first step is to steal it... Join the authors of Once Upon A Wicked Heart as they detail the bittersweet, tragic, and sinister love lives of the villains we all love to hate! These twelve dark retellings of fairy tales and myths will leave you shocked, entertained, and hungry for more! • a Faerie queen with a score to settle • a mechanical heart that could be a young woman's undoing • a god who takes back what was stolen from him in a gruesome fashion • a cursed maiden who finds worth in her affliction • a jilted goddess who starts a bloody war • a serial killer who might have just met her match • a sister who seeks vengeance against those who wronged her • a nymph who seems to have found true love at last • a mistreated queen who takes her rightful place no matter the cost • a heart of ice that will either thaw or shatter • a betrayed witch who vows retribution for the slights against her • a sea witch who learns that love cannot be so easily manipulated

How do you break a villain’s heart? The first step is to steal it... Join the authors of Once Upon A Wicked Heart as they detail the bittersweet, tragic, and sinister love lives of the villains we all love to hate! These twelve dark retellings of fairy tales and myths will leave you shocked, entertained, and hungry for more! • a Faerie queen with a score to settle • a mechanical heart that could be a young woman's undoing • a god who takes back what was stolen from him in a gruesome fashion • a cursed maiden who finds worth in her affliction • a jilted goddess who starts a bloody war • a serial killer who might have just met her match • a sister who seeks vengeance against those who wronged her • a nymph who seems to have found true love at last • a mistreated queen who takes her rightful place no matter the cost • a heart of ice that will either thaw or shatter • a betrayed witch who vows retribution for the slights against her • a sea witch who learns that love cannot be so easily manipulated

Wishes Once, no one loved her. She lived solitary and neglected behind castle walls, her parents only half-there, the servants having long fled. Fantasizing away her days, the abandoned princess put herself together into a young woman by carelessly stuffing all the empty nooks in her life full of books and wishes and imprudent dreams. She lived all unsuspecting that, far away, a youth existed who had never had a library from which to pilfer books. He only knew a world from which he stole souls. Whispers No one loved him, either. He'd once been a goblin's captive, and several of his human fragments had been pared away-like his conscience. And so, when he infiltrated her deserted castle, he had no trouble at all trailing wicked whispers around the put-together princess, promising to give her her greatest wish: companionship. But after what he'd done to her father, could she really trust him? Sibilant hisses Not that it mattered what he or she did, because the goblin king spied from his thousand windows into the world, and he had his own wishes...