New York Times bestseller and award-winning author Tamsyn Muir returns with a subversive fairytale adventure that blends Nettle & Bone with Dungeon Crawler Carl.
When Princess Floralinda has to rescue herself from the tower, that's when the real trouble starts . . .
THE TOWER BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER. TRUE LOVE MADE THEM WORSE.
The princess in the tower is a classic for a reason: witch kidnaps princess; witch puts princess in tower guarded by monsters; prince kills monsters, rescues princess; happily ever after, roll credits. Princess Floralinda's story goes a little differently. Her witch was an artiste, and she got carried away. After a dozen or so princes died on the very first floor, the rest decided there were easier paths to wedded bliss. So Floralinda set out to rescue herself, armed only with a breadknife, a good upbringing, and a captive fairy named Cobweb.
THE ONLY WAY OUT IS DOWN
After forty flights of brutal monster-slaying, Floralinda emerges at the bottom of the tower bloodied, unbowed, and no longer a princess in anything but name. Unfortunately, the trouble is only beginning for the one-time-princess and her fairy companion. Succession looms. The Fairy Courts call. A princess would have no hope of surviving all that is to come . . . but maybe a monster could.
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Tamsyn Muir is a horror, fantasy and science fiction writer. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling Locked Tomb series, which begins with Gideon the Ninth, continues with Harrow the Ninth and Nona the Ninth, and concludes with Alecto the Ninth (forthcoming), and the novella Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower. Her short fiction has appeared in Nightmare Magazine, F&SF, Fantasy Magazine, Weird Tales, and Clarkesworld. She has won the Locus and Crawford awards, and been nominated for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Dragon Award, and the Eugie Foster Memorial Award. A Kiwi, she has spent most of her life in Howick, New Zealand, with time living in Waiuku and central Wellington. She currently lives and works in Oxford, in the United Kingdom.