What happens when a fairy godmother's tell-all memoir breaks the very magic that keeps fairy tales running?

Mavis Glitterweather thought retirement would be all tea and tranquility. She was wrong. Dead wrong. Catastrophically, princes-throwing-shoes-at-her-head wrong.

After decades of waving wands and granting wishes, Mavis decided to write a memoir exposing the messy reality behind those perfect “happily ever afters.” The Fine Print of Fairy Tales was meant to be a harmless tell-all about magical mishaps and the bureaucracy of wish-granting.

Instead, it's unleashed complete chaos.

Cinderella's having an existential crisis about glass footwear and workplace rights for mice. Sleeping Beauty hasn't slept in days and has started fourteen new hobbies (she's terrible at all of them). Snow White's gone full investigative journalist, hacking magical mirror networks and exposing corruption in the Fairy Tale Guild.

And they're all coming for Mavis.

Because her memoir didn't just spill royal secrets—it broke the magical programming that's been controlling fairy tale characters for centuries.

Now the Guild of Magical Narratives wants her memory wiped, angry princesses are throwing conjured shoes, and the entire fairy tale world is teetering between predetermined perfection and messy, complicated free will.

Armed with nothing but her sarcastic wand Snarkle, a neurotic goat with hygiene issues, and a kleptomaniac crow who thinks everything shiny belongs to him, Mavis must fix what she's broken. Even if it means giving up everything she's ever known about magic.

Because sometimes the most magical thing you can do is let people write their own stories.

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology