We are pleased to offer you an early exclusive extract from Freya Marske’s Cinder House, due out next month!
Freya is the author of A Power Unbound, A Restless Truth and A Marvellous Light, the latter of which became an international bestseller and won the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Award for Romantic Fantasy. Her work has appeared in Analog and has been shortlisted for three Aurealis Awards. She is also a Hugo-nominated podcaster, and won the Ditmar Award for Best New Talent. She lives in Australia.
In Cinder House we meet Cinderella as you’ve never seen her before. It is a Gothic fairy tale romance where the roles of the ghost, the house and the ingenue are all played by the same character.
Murdered at sixteen, Ella is a furious ghost trapped in her father’s house, invisible to everyone except her stepmother and stepsisters.Even when she discovers how to untether herself from her prison, there are limits. She cannot be seen or heard by the living people who surround her. Her family must never learn she is able to leave. And at the stroke of every midnight, she finds herself back on the staircase where she died.Until she forges a wary friendship with a fairy charm-seller, and makes a bargain for three nights of almost-living freedom. Freedom that means she can finally be seen. Danced with. Touched.
You might think you know our main character Ella’s story: the ball, the magical shoes, the handsome prince. You’re halfway right, and all-the-way wrong.
‘Gorgeous, whimsical, romantic, and bittersweet’ – Ava Reid, Sunday Times bestselling author of Lady Macbeth.
Interested? The exclusive extract is here: Cinder House Extract
The book is out on the 16th October. We hope you enjoy it.
Thanks to Emelie at @UKTor for organising.
