The Seven Hungers
Snow White did not wake whole.
After the poisoned apple stopped her heart, seven ancient wardens found her in the forest and refused to surrender her to death. They built a coffin of glass and iron, filled it with dark preservations, and committed the sin they called love. To keep her from dissolving under the Queen's poison, they divided the living pieces of her soul and carried them away.
Valor. Memory. Joy. Fear. Rage. Dreams. Desire.
One year later, a prince kisses the girl in the coffin and believes he has rescued her.
He has only opened the glass.
Snow White wakes beautiful, deathless, and hollow, driven by a hunger she does not yet understand. In the castle, flowers blacken at her touch, mirrors whisper with the dead Queen's voice, and Prince Alaric begins to waste away under the weight of what his kiss released. Beyond the kingdom, the seven keepers feel the stolen fragments stir inside them and know the girl they preserved has begun to reclaim herself.
Her path leads through the Iron Vein, the sinking archives, a carnival of screaming joy, a cave built from fear, the Ashen Peaks, dream-woven prisons, and an orchard where desire has learned to worship its own restraint. Each recovered piece makes Snow White more complete, and less like the story the kingdom wants to believe.
But the Queen who poisoned her is not finished.
Beneath the chapel, inside an obsidian sepulcher and a cracked mirror, the old Queen waits for Snow White to become whole enough to occupy.
The Seven Hungers is a dark fairy-tale horror novel about Snow White after the coffin, the seven stolen fragments of her soul, and the terrifying cost of being preserved, awakened, and claimed by everyone except herself.
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