Liz DeJesus – författare

For generations, the Frost family has run the Museum of Magical and Rare Artifacts, handing down guardianship from mother to daughter, always keeping their secrets within the family. Gathered within the museum's walls is a collection dedicated to the Grimm fairy tales and the rare items the family has acquired: Cinderella's glass slipper, Snow White's poisoned apple, the evil queen's magic mirror, Sleeping Beauty's enchanted spinning wheel . . . Seventeen-year-old Bianca Frost wants none of it, dreaming instead of a career in art or photography or . . . well, anything except working in the family's museum. She knows the items in the glass display cases are fakes because, of course, magic doesn't really exist. She's about to find out how wrong she is.

Neve Blanche is a survivor.In her compound, The Orchard, she and her friends fight to stay alive while they work to find a cure to the deadly plague that walks the earth.Zombies.Zombies created and unleashed upon the world by her stepmother, Lila, in an obsessive attempt to retain her beauty.Seven years earlier, Lila fled The Orchard, leaving it in chaos. Now she's back to take the one thing she needs to perfect her beauty serum, the one thing she could never obtain in her time at The Orchard.The apples.Locked away in the depths of The Orchard lie the apple trees, rare now to their world and protected by Neve. Lila will do anything in her power to finally get her hands on the apples.Can Neve stop her before she and her friends become victims of Lila's obsession?

When Cinderella's glass slipper is stolen, Everafter's Queen Felicia sends her faithful steward, Terrance, to the "e;real"e; world to retrieve his love, and witch-in-training, Bianca Frost.The power of the glass slipper, when paired with its mate, could ruin the peace of Everafter—especially in the wrong hands.Together, Bianca, Ming, Prince Ferdinand, and Terrance venture deep into the heart of Everafter to seek clues as to who has stolen the slipper and why. Bianca must gather every bit of magic she has learned to find the coveted artifact and protect her new love.Along the way, she will learn the risks of tampering with black magic and the high price that must be paid for any magic, even when used for good.Bianca and Terrance's relationship will be put to the test. Bianca must decide if following her gallant boyfriend into his fantasy world is in fact her heart's desire.

In The Laurel, the gods and the mortals interplay, and both will learn a valuable lesson about love and life, a lesson that will forever be told. Zeus, after bedding and impregnating the fair Titaness Leto, becomes father to twins: Apollo and Artemis. Unlike his other "e;bastard"e; children, Apollo and Artemis are made into gods, an event which will set the course for the rest of the story. Artemis has never forgotten the heartache that her mother suffered at the hands of her father Zeus, and as such, she wishes to leave a solitary life, away from men and love and relationships. Though she stands firm in her conviction, moments bubble up in her that are full of yearning. Apollo, who has never been seen without a smile on his face, is much more fanciful and wanting than Artemis. He wants love, and he wants it in a big way. Having loved and lost love, Apollo believes he has found it again with the beautiful nymph, Daphne. He quickly learns, however, that she has made a vow to celibacy. But that doesn't matter to Apollo; his love for her is so profound that he asks her to be his companion, to live with him just so that he can be near her. Apollo's lifelong wish is about to come true, but people on the fringes of his life have other plans. Those plans not only thwart what could be the love of a lifetime for Apollo, but it also will be the catalyst to which both gods and mortals will learn how much one should love, how much one should consider the feelings of the one coveted.