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The Serpent's Dance: A Fable for the Girls Who Burned and Didn't Apologise.
Paperback
Series: The Ruined Realms, Book 0
ISBN13: 9789893686508
Publisher: Under
Published: Apr 30 2026
Pages: 66
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.16 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This is not a fairytale.
A Fable for the Girls Who Burned and Didn't Apologise.
When a girl is stripped of her name, her crown, and her place in the world-when a king hands her to his men and the forest swallows what's left-something ancient answers from the moss. Something with eyes like burned stars. Something that does not forgive. Something that does not kneel. Something that remembers her true name.
She rises crowned in coals. Naked. Glorious. Laughing.
By dawn, the castle is cinders.
The Serpent's Dance is a dark mythic fable of rage, rebirth, and reclamation, where fire becomes language, vengeance becomes ritual, and survival is rewritten as transformation. Lyrical, brutal, and unflinching, it walks the line between beauty and horror to ask one question:
What if she didn't stay broken?
Some books are written. This one arrives. It comes to the girl at her first blood. It comes before the burning. It comes like a blade, like a blessing, like a dare. You are holding it now. That means something has begun.
For readers of Madeline Miller, V.E. Schwab, and Ava Reid-and for every girl who was ever told to be quiet.
This second edition includes:
- The complete fable, The Serpent's Dance, newly revised, with a redesigned interior and a new cover.
- A bonus five-chapter opening of Of Wards and Wi-Fi, Book One of the Ruined Realms series: a witchy, dangerous urban fantasy where Lisbon hides more than it reveals. Isadora keeps a witch's shop in the Mouraria, owes the wrong people, and has just seen her 900-year-old vampire ex on Instagram with the worst possible woman. Tonight she's setting wards for a conclave she'd rather not face. Tonight, something old wakes in the park between her and the door. Tonight, a stranger with a blessed blade decides what she is.
The Serpent's Dance stands alone. It is also the calling card of a goddess who walks the Ruined Realms in shadow-the seed every novel in the series grows from.
Content note: The Serpent's Dance contains depictions of sexual violence, physical assault, and the long aftermath of trauma. The novel preview contains graphic violence and scenes of magical possession. Written with care. Reader discretion advised.
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