A Down the Twisted Path Story: a new spin on an olde tale
Thrust into a life she did not want...
Being the eldest child in a royal family, Vittoria looks forward to one day ruling her kingdom. She has accepted that as princess, she might not marry for love, but her father increasingly applies pressure to marry men whom she despises, and he turns away any slightly decent man.
A sleeping spell cast by a rogue enchantress steals away a year of her life, but a kiss from her supposed true love, a prince from a distant land, removes the spell, and she awakens to find she's now promised in marriage to him. After getting to know the arrogant prince, she isn't sure she'll ever come to love him, and she dreads the day she's forced to move to his lands.
But it isn't just that. Her country has fallen into turmoil, and nobody knows if the enchantress was working on her own or if she colluded with the Resistance, a violent group opposed to the king and his policies. Vittoria has one month left before she has to leave the country she loves, but her life is still in danger, and as she searches for answers, she must decide whom she can trust and whom she can't.
An Unwanted Life is a dark and twisted Sleeping Beauty retelling.