Mirror of Blood: A Twisted Snow White Retelling

To survive a jealous queen, a hunted girl accepts a poison bargain, and the Mirror of Blood turns beauty into a sentence.

Isolde Snowe grew up inside a palace where smiles hid knives. Her mother died young. Her father chose a new wife. The new queen chose a new law: obedience, silence, and perfection.

The palace mirror tells the queen what she fears most. It never lies. It never softens the truth. When the mirror names Isolde as the threat, the queen orders her death and calls it mercy.

Isolde escapes into the blackwood beyond the court, where the air tastes of iron and old prayers. She finds a hidden house with seven locked doors and rules written in bone. She finds men who live outside the story, marked by exile, debt, and violence they refuse to speak of.

Then the queen arrives with a gift wrapped in velvet and rot. A single apple. A single bite. A single bargain.

Isolde thinks she can outplay the curse, take the poison on her own terms, and return for what the queen stole. The mirror has other plans. It ties Isolde’s blood to the court and drags her back through dreams, hunger, and heat she cannot explain.

As the queen prepares a wedding meant to seal her reign, Isolde must choose what beauty means in a world built to consume it. Stay hidden and live. Step into the palace and burn. Or claim the mirror, the poison, and the darkness in her own body, then rewrite the ending with blood on her hands.

Mirror of Blood is Book Six in Wicked Ever After, a standalone adult dark romantasy retelling with gothic atmosphere, high heat, and story magic that punishes the beautiful.