T. Kingfisher

Thornhedge is the tale of a kind-hearted, toad-shaped heroine, a gentle knight, and a mission gone completely sideways.

There's a princess trapped in a tower. This isn't her story. / / / 

Meet Toadling. On the day of her birth, she was stolen from her family by the fairies, but she grew up safe and loved in the warm waters of faerieland. Once an adult though, the fae ask a favor of Toadling: return to the human world and offer a blessing of protection to a newborn child. Simple, right?

But nothing with fairies is ever simple. . . 

Centuries later, a knight approaches a towering wall of brambles, where the thorns are as thick as your arm and as sharp as swords. He's heard there's a curse here that needs breaking, but it's a curse Toadling will do anything to uphold. . . 

Thornhedge

Caroline Clutterbuck Kapulkin

How does anyone manage? There are too many streams and they all flow and all of them could be good and there's no way to know. How does anyone ever choose to do anything?

Well. No matter what choices she did or did not make, there was still a task remaining.

Emily McMeans

"It should have mattered. All that love and all that trying should have changed... something...”

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