Vile & Virtue: The Beginning Kindle Edition

Every story ever told lives in one place. And it just swallowed Sasha whole.A bruised stranger shoves an ancient book into Sasha Lancaster's hands at the Boston Public Library. Hours away in Manhattan, her twin sister Sidney receives the same gift from the same impossible man. His only words: Burn it. Bury it. I'm free.Too bad Sasha doesn't listen.Now the sisters are trapped in a dimension built from all of fiction, and at the mercy of Vile and Virtue, twin demigods forged from every villain and every hero ever written. Beautiful, ancient, and catastrophically bored, they've designed a game: throw the sisters into classic stories from Neverland to Wonderland, pit them against each other, best of three. Lose your lives, and you die for real. The only way both walk free? Tell them a story they've never heard.No one has ever managed it.Sasha is paired with Vile, a mind-reading nightmare who flirts like a poet and kills like an artist. Sidney lands with Virtue, a golden prince who can't break his brother's rules no matter how badly he wants to.The monster wants her dead. He also wants her breathless. Sasha's starting to wonder which one she's more afraid of._______________________________For fans of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, Piranesi, and villains who steal every scene they're in. From the USA Today Bestselling Author of The Unseelie Prince, The Contortionist, and The Serpent's Bride, comes this unique spin on retelling our favorite pieces of fiction. This one might just be a little more "meta" than most. (But don't worry, I tried to keep him on his best behavior.) Read more