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Pepelina is the pen-wielding Cinderella who eats fruit from her father’s orchard and dreams of publishing a book.
When her father dies, everyone rejects, mocks and silences her stories. Her only chance to publish is the ball, but even the sweetness of the midnight turns sour.
Betrayed and alone, will Pepelina rise from the ashes, and fly on the wings of fire before old enemies cage her and grief ends her? Or will heavenly wrath, and heavy ancestral truths bury the broken world in ash before her sacred story can heal it?
Writerly ever after has never been this sought-after.
Fantasy, Literary, Fairytale Retelling, Literary Fantasy, Ancestral Magic, Mythology, Feminism, Strong Female Main Character
About The Author
Anamarija Mraz, writing as Mary-Anne Frost, is a Croatian Australian author living in Perth crafting fairytale-fantasy rooted in Slavic mythology and Australian folklore.
Her debut novel, Pepelina, The Slavic Cinderella opens the Cinderella-Fairy Cross series, a bridge between her Croatian roots and Australian home told the way her grandmothers once told stories: close to the fire, unhurried and true.
When not writing, Mary-Anne spends her time with her fur baby Felix and finds enchantment in everyday walks.
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