Product Description
MARRY THE PRINCE. THEN KILL HIM.
Princess Madalina and her twin, Inessa, are born attached at the hand—the only time the sisters were ever united.
Madalina is gentle, finding peace amongst her magical flowers—flowers ideal for torture and torment, though not in her hands, for Madalina dreams of escape.
Inessa is ruthless—betrothed to a wealthy heir, she has been working to a secret mission: marry the prince, then kill him.
But when Inessa becomes trapped in ghostly purgatory, Madalina must take her twin’s place as a bride with deadly orders.
In a rotten kingdom, everything is politics and poison. Can Madalina resist the infuriatingly clever prince and, for the sake of her family, put aside her heart?
Taking the twisty intrigue of Hamlet and fusing it with the courtly rivalry of the Boleyn family, Grave Flowers is a deliciously dark tale of secrets, betrayal and forbidden romance.
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twins, grief, belonging, love, secrets, murder, magic
Twin sisters joined at the hand at birth are separated. Their father, the king, raises them in competition with each other. Inessa is chosen as heir while Madalina lives more quietly among the grave flowers of the royal garden. As their kingdom declines from famine and debt, a political marriage ties them to the neighbouring kingdom of Acus. A gothic fantasy retelling of Shakespeare’s Hamlet filled with twists and conflict that’s ideal for ages 14 to 18.
