Alyce feels responsible for her people’s spell and agrees to help Aurora-meanwhile working to build her own power in secret. There she meets the princess, who is desperate to break the Vila curse that will kill her on her 21st birthday if she hasn’t found true love. Thus, it is assumed that the invitation to Princess Aurora’s 20th birthday party sent to Lavender House does not extend to Alyce-but she attends anyway. Known as the Dark Grace, Alyce is rejected publicly, even as the rich and powerful solicit her dark magic in secret.
The Graces, meanwhile, are gold-blooded, gifted with Fae magic as part of an alliance between the humans of Briar and the Fae of Etheria. Alyce, called “Malyce” by the Graces she lives with at Lavender House, has the green blood of the Vila, an evil race of magical beings, running in her veins. The villain takes center stage in Walter’s superlative debut, a refreshing spin on Sleeping Beauty.
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