Tessa King's marriage to James is overshadowed by the rejection of his three daughters from his first marriage and his first wife's unexpected reactions to the union.

Cendrillon and her adopted brother, Raoul, left to be raised by servants, grow up in a quiet household until the day an elegant woman and her two daughters arrive announcing that she has married Cendrillon's father and will be taking over the household.

"In the vein of Wicked, The Woodcutter, and Boy, Snow, Bird, a luminous reimagining of a classic tale, told from the perspective of Agnes, Cinderella's "evil" stepmother. We all know the story of Cinderella. Or do we? As rumors about the cruel upbringingof beautiful newlywed Princess Cinderella roil the kingdom, her stepmother, Agnes, who knows all too well about hardship, privately records the true story. A peasant born into serfdom, Agnes is separated...

Having received a fair share of angry retaliations in her work as a film and theater critic, Caroline Enright is nevertheless unprepared for a murder in a quaint college town where her stepdaughter is performing in a summer theater festival.

While working at a summer stock theater, eleven-year-old Zack and his stepmother encounter the ghost of one of Connecticut's most notorious criminals.

Hated by her evil stepmother, a young girl learns the art of bullfighting from her father and runs away with a troupe of dwarves to become a legendary matador.

In 1810, Lucy Bluecrowne, twelve, is bored living ashore with her stepmother and half brother until two nefarious strangers identify her little brother as the pyrotechnical prodigy they need for their evil plan.

Jane Green's Another Piece of My Heart is an unforgettable novel that illuminates the nuances and truths about love, family, and motherhood from the New York Times bestselling author of Jemima J and The Beach House "A moving story peopled with nuance, sympathetic characters." -Booklist Andi has spent much of her adult life looking for the perfect man, and at thirty-seven, she's finally found him. Ethan-divorced with two daughters, Emily and Sophia-is...

Recasts the tale of Snow White, setting it in West Virginia in the 1940s with a stepmother who is a snake-handler.