num_pages: 264
description:  Cinderella retoldIn the wake of her father's death Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Consumed with grief her only joy comes by the light of the dying hearth fire rereading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams someday the fairies will steal her away as they are said to do. When she meets the dark and dangerous fairy Sidhean she believes that her wish may be granted.The day that Ash meets Kaisa the King's Huntress her heart begins to change. Instead of chasing fairies Ash learns to hunt with Kaisa. Though their friendship is as delicate as a new bloom it reawakens Ash's capacity for love-and her desire to live. But Sidhean has already claimed Ash for his own and she must make a choice between fairy tale dreams and true love.Entrancing empowering and romantic Ash is about the connection between life and love and solitude and death where transformation can come from even the deepest grief.
language: English
title: Ash
publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers