Three sisters. Four time periods. An ancient fae secret threatening to destroy all of life itself.
Follow the Florentini sisters from modern-day New York City as they become embroiled in a fae war that spans continents and time.
OPHELIA
Seventeen-year-old Ophelia Florentini is as normal as any other high school theatre kid, except for the visions of fae creatures that fill her dreams. When her play rehearsal is interrupted by the same ageless elf who keeps showing up to save her—this time from the very creatures in her dreams—her world implodes. As centaurs, pixies, trolls, and all manner of fae attack her family’s restaurant, she finds herself thrown into a new world and time where the events of Shakespeare’s Hamlet are taking place before her very eyes, but not in the way she expects.
HAMLET
In 13th-century Denmark, Hamlet is plunged into chaos when his father, the king, is murdered. Returning from Oxford, the young prince finds that his beloved home is practically unrecognizable. The queen blames her husband's murder on the fae living amongst them, and she is handing out punishments left and right. Only it might not be her doing. Unbeknownst to Hamlet, the darkness taking root in the kingdom has been brought on by someone much older and far more bitter than the queen.
Will Ophelia be able to avoid her seemingly inescapable death and stop the Harbinger of the End of Days, or is she fated to end up like her namesake?
ABOUT THE SERIES
The Wayward Chronicles is a series of romantasy duologies each retelling a different Shakespeare play. Each duology is told from the perspective of one of the three Wyrd Sisters from Shakespeare's Macbeth. Perfect for fans of Marissa Meyer's Gilded, Erin A. Craig's House of Salt and Sorrows, and Lydia Sherrer's Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus.
A Curse So Bitter and Broken is a dual point of view romantic fantasy retelling of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, where the romance is integral to the story but the magic and high-stakes adventure take center stage.
Ophelia and Hamlet's story will continue in A Curse So Bitter and Broken 2: The Harbinger and the Queen.
