Pretty Things: A Robber Bridegroom Tale

When Maddie's father catches her with a boy, he hauls her into town in a pig wagon and finds her a husband. But Peter's cabin in the woods promises something very different than Maddie's happily ever after. Maddie likes boys...especially the boys her daddy hires to work at his mill. She finds them deliciously innocent and eager for temptation. But Maddie’s evil stepmother puts an end to it all when she convinces Maddie’s precious daddy to get her a husband as soon as possible. Angry and fearful for his daughter, the miller impulsively promises Maddie to a rogue boy named Peter who lives with a witch and a group of orphan boys in a cabin in the woods. Forced by her daddy’s pride to go through with the wedding, Maddie has to trust her stepmother to help her find a clever way to outsmart Peter and his band of thieving cannibals before they put her in the soup. Pretty Things, a dark fantasy retelling of the Grimm fairytale "The Robber Bridegroom," is the first novella in the Grimm Chronicles series. not your granny's fairytales!