Princess Rose carries a dangerous curse. Everyone loves her. When she turns away each of the princes des­perate to marry her, one takes mat­ters into his own hands. He steals her away through a magic mir­ror to his own dis­tant kingdom. But noth­ing in the Crystal Cas­tle is quite what it seems: not the hand­some prince, not the mad king she never sees, not even the silent page who becomes her only friend. When Rose finally unrav­els the maze of secrets and discov­ers what the prince really wants, she knows she must escape or lose more than her life. Fans of dark fairy­tales like Cora­line and Clock­works will thrill to the mys­tery and sus­pense of Princess Rose and the Crys­tal Castle.

Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by Anna Sewell, and reportedly banned by South Africa's apartheid regime. The story is narrated in the first person as an autobiographical memoir told by a horse named Black Beauty.