USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's A Spindle Splintered brings her patented charm to
a new version of a classic story. Featuring Arthur Rackham's original illustrations for The
Sleeping Beauty fractured and reimagined. A vivid subversive and feminist reimagining of
Sleeping Beauty where implacable destiny is no match for courage sisterhood stubbornness and
a good working knowledge of fairy tales. -Katherine Arden 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.
