The ravenous gown and 14 more tales about real beauty

In a day when princesses have been boiled down to beautiful ball gowns comes a new kind of fairy tale.Fall under the spell of a “Once upon a time . . . ” where beauty is bigger than a reflection, where wisdom makes girls extraordinary, and where curses are broken through the strength and character of unlikely heroines.A magnificent collection of short stories written in fairy tale prose The Ravenous Gown captures the essence of a stronger, smarter princess—the kind that actually lives happily ever after.