title: Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales
author: Valerie Paradiz
description: "This accessible book brings unsung heroines of literature to light and will inform readers of women's history and literature." -- <i><i>Publishers Weekly</i></i><br /><br />"Well researched, well crafted: sure to be welcomed in women's-studies programs." -- <i><i>Kirkus Reviews</i></i>
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  ## Cinderella Dressed in Ashes
  
  
    
  
  
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  _( The Grimm Diaries - 2 )_
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Cameron Jace
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Loki is controlled by the Queen through his Dreamhunter's Fleece, and he's now
  Snow White's enemy. No one's sure what the Queen of Sorrow wants to do next,
  and what her plans with Sorrow are.
  
  
  In another Dreamory, they learn who Cinderella really is, where she came from,
  her relationship with Snow, and what historical period she'd affected with
  what she calls the Forbidden Art.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ##  Cinderella Dressed in Ashes
  
  
  ## The Grimm Diaries 2
  
  
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  ## Cameron Jace
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  **PROLOGUE**
  
  
  
  
  
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  **A Splinter of Mirrors**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The Children of Hamlin didn’t care for the woman in the luxurious black veil.
  
  
  She claimed that Charmwill Glimmer sent her to tell them a crucially important
  story, one that would expose a great secret about the evil in the Fairyworld.
  
  
  Still, the children