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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES • This wicked novel uncovers the origins of one of Disney’s most cold-hearted villains: Cinderella’s stepmother Lady Tremaine. This was supposed to be her happily ever after... It’s a familiar tale: A kind and beautiful young girl reeling from loss. A doting father frantic to bring a mother’s love back into his daughter’s life. And the selfish cruel woman who insinuates herself into that family a woman so unfeeling so cold hearted that when her new husband dies she makes the girl a servant in her own home. But who is that evil stepmother that icy lady of the house? How did she become so closed off that in the face of a child’s grief she thought only to seek wealth and power for herself and her abhorrent daughters? Before that fateful ball before the glass slipper and the prince there was another story a story of love and grief of hope and of dreams dashed. It is the story of Lady Tremaine.