The Queen (Blodwen Forest #3)

Queen Gwenda, increasingly known as Snow White to her people, is a curse. No one will ever convince her otherwise. The result of a forbidden spell that cost her mother's life, it seems all she does is attract trouble. The Bloody Beauty who murdered her father. The terrifying Bluebeard who came to Blodwen in search of revenge. Now an illness plagues her people, and the only clue to its origins is a strange song that plays every night, a song that even Blodwen Forest cannot locate.

All Gwenda wants is for her kingdom to be happy, healthy, and at peace. No more killers, no more curses, no more nights spent wondering what nightmare will befall them next. If she can ever achieve that, maybe she'll at last be able to fulfill a few private wishes of her own, and build a life that isn't filled with tragedy and death and lonely nights.

As if she doesn't have enough thwarting her goals, in the midst of it all a new mystifying problem arrives: a man arrested for impersonating a noble, pretending to be the duke of a long-problematic domain, a man who claims he killed the ogre that had overtaken the castle, and who never goes anywhere without his companion, a strange, bold, and entirely too clever cat…