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Soon Serilda realises that there is more than one secret hidden in the castle walls, including an ancient curse that must be broken if she hopes to end the tyranny of the king and his wild hunt forever. Love isn’t meant to be part of the bargain. In her desperation, Serilda unwittingly summons a mysterious boy to her aid.

The king orders Serilda to complete the impossible task of spinning straw into gold, or be killed for telling falsehoods. When one of Serilda’s outlandish tales draws the attention of the sinister Erlking and his undead hunters, she finds herself swept away into a grim world where ghouls and phantoms prowl the earth and hollow-eyed ravens track her every move. Long ago cursed by the god of lies, a poor miller’s daughter has developed a talent for spinning stories that are fantastical and spellbinding and entirely untrue.

Here is the official synopsis of the story, being revealed here first: I hope readers will have as much fun discovering these twists as I’ve had writing them!” “So that’s led to a lot of exploration into the characters and their motivations. In this case - what if Rumpelstiltskin isn’t the villain of the story? Reading the old versions of the tale, there’s a lot of room for debate as to how much Rumpelstiltskin does or doesn’t help the miller’s daughter, and who is the true antagonist,” the author said. So, what’s that spin going to be? “As with many of my books, the idea for Gilded started with a what-if question.

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