"Chokshi's tale is as sweet as a piece of fairy fruit and just as wicked. Every bite is velvet
every swallow is gold and the taste lingers like a fever dream." ? V. E. Schwab #1 New York
Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue "Gorgeous and ornate this
sensual fairy tale illuminates the corrosive and redemptive power of both love and lies." ?
Holly Black #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book of Night A sumptuous gothic-infused
story about a marriage that is unraveled by dark secrets a friendship cursed to end in tragedy
and the danger of believing in fairy tales?the breathtaking adult debut from New York Times
bestselling author Roshani Chokshi. Once upon a time a man who believed in fairy tales married
a beautiful mysterious woman named Indigo Maxwell-Casteñada. He was a scholar of myths. She
was heiress to a fortune. They exchanged gifts and stories and believed they would live happily
ever after?and in exchange for her love Indigo extracted a promise: that her bridegroom would
never pry into her past. But when Indigo learns that her estranged aunt is dying and the couple
is forced to return to her childhood home the House of Dreams the bridegroom will soon find
himself unable to resist. For within the crumbling manor's extravagant rooms and musty halls
there lurks the shadow of another girl: Azure Indigo's dearest childhood friend who suddenly
disappeared. As the house slowly reveals his wife's secrets the bridegroom will be forced to
choose between reality and fantasy even if doing so threatens to destroy their marriage . . .
or their lives. Combining the lush haunting atmosphere of Mexican Gothic with the dreamy
enchantment of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue The Last Tale of the Flower Bride is a
spellbinding and darkly romantic page-turner about love and lies secrets and betrayal and the
stories we tell ourselves to survive. "A fairy tale in the oldest and truest sense: a haunting
dream full of blood and love vicious truths and beautiful lies. It swallowed me whole and I
went willingly." ? Alix E. Harrow New York Times bestselling author of The Once and Future
Witches
