Kirjahaku

Every fairy tale comes to an end.Briar Pryce thought she was saving the Poisoned Apple, New York City's borough of bootleg curses and graffiti-strewn castles. But when she freed every princess in town from their sleeping spells, she woke a giant deep underground, threatening the very foundation of her world. With her city crumbling around her and her boyfriend trapped in a magic mirror, she's considering a fate worse than death for any New Yorker: relocating to Jersey.But together with her friends, she's not letting her town's magic die without a fight. From the depths of the Poisoned Apple to a floating island in another world, Briar must battle a force emerging from the darkest parts of her city's story, who can bend wicked creatures to her will. She'll have to discover the hidden origins of the Apple itself, a story linked with her own past, if she's going to stop the enemies trying to erase her community from existence.But as Briar's own emotion-altering powers grow into something far greater, will she be able to write the ending she chooses?

Welcome to New York City's lost borough of fairy-tale wonder and rent-controlled magic.Briar Pryce has the power to change the emotions of others by handing them a rose. It is a talent that has done surprisingly little for her, besides landing her a dead-end enchantment delivery job and killing any chance she had with her childhood-crush-turned-roommate. Worst of all, her ability might be responsible for getting her best friend transformed into a cat via a cursed muffin basket. Needless to say, Briar is nowhere near happily-ever-after. But that's just life as a twenty-something in the Poisoned Apple, New York City's lost borough of fairy-tale wonder and rent-controlled magic.When Briar reluctantly agrees to help find a princess's kidnapped boyfriend in exchange for reversing the curse on her friend, she gets the heroic quest she never really wanted. Unfortunately, the life of a noble heroine is not all it's cracked up to be: the hours blow, and Briar suspects that the Royal family employing her might be evil, Republican, or both. To complete the suckage, a killer smoke magician is stalking Briar as she searches both the Poisoned Apple and Manhattan for the missing boy. As tensions between the Poisoned Apple royalty ignite and civil war looms, Briar must figure out how to write her own happy ending-or she'll just be ending.