Faking Fairy Tales

 The Princess Programme wants perfect girls. It gets four old witches instead.

Princess Alba is the rising star of the Princess Channel, but when she stops broadcasting, only her wicked stepmother thinks it's strange. So Octavia, former Evil Queen, takes a potion to make herself young again and auditions to be a princess – dragging the rest of The Old Crones Club along with her. Behind the tiaras and smiles she finds contracts nobody is permitted to read, ever-growing debts, and a ranking system that decides which girls are worth keeping. She also finds an audience and remembers she likes it a little too much.

Griselda is there for something else entirely. She's spent two years putting her plans for revenge on hold as she cares for a sister who can't remember her own name. Now there's a rumour that a Grimm Brother is hiding somewhere inside the castle walls, and an itch under her skin that will not stop. Both of them are faking it. But which one will lose herself completely?

A witchy fairytale retelling for fans of T. Kingfisher, Wicked, Naomi Novik and Alix E. Harrow.