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Published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2018
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Source ISBN: 9780008224479
Ebook Edition © January 2018 ISBN: 9780008224486
Version: 2017-12-11
For Ally and Brendan
IN THE FOREST PRIMEVAL
A SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL
TWO TOWERS LIKE TWIN HEADS
ONE FOR THE PURE
ONE FOR THE WICKED
TRY TO ESCAPE YOU’LL ALWAYS FAIL
THE ONLY WAY OUT IS
THROUGH A FAIRY TALE
Contents
Epigraph
Map
PART I
1. AGATHA: The Almost Queen
2. TEDROS: How Not to Throw a Coronation
3. SOPHIE: Flah-sé-dah
4. THE COVEN: Mission Diverted
5. AGATHA: Intervention
6. TEDROS: Two Theories
7. CHADDICK: The Liege and the Lady
8. SOPHIE: One Quest to Save Them All
9. HORT: Who Would Want a Hort?
10. NICOLA: The Perks of Being a Reader
11. AGATHA: Stay with the Group
12. SOPHIE: First Loyalty
13. TEDROS: Like Father, Like Son
14. TEDROS: What It Feels Like for a King
15. AGATHA: Pirate Pavilion
16. TEDROS: Riddles and Mistrals
17. SOPHIE: The Map Room
18. AGATHA: The Pen That Writes the Truth
19. HORT: Four Point
20. SOPHIE: The Lion and the Snake
PART II
21. TEDROS: Allies and Enemies
22. AGATHA: The Mysteries of a Name
23. THE COVEN: The Sheriff’s Daughter
24. TEDROS: Sides of a Story
25. AGATHA: Date Night in Sherwood Forest
26. TEDROS: Questions of a King
27. SOPHIE: The King’s Speech
28. AGATHA: The Princess and the King
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About the Author
About the Publisher
When you spend most of your life planning your Ever After with a girl, it feels strange to be planning your wedding to a boy.
A boy who’d been avoiding Agatha for months.
She couldn’t sleep, dread brewing