Silver Hands for a Stolen Girl
A Retelling of The Girl Without Hands

About this book:

When a desperate miller strikes a bargain with a stranger whose palm bears no lines, he believes he has traded only a twisted apple tree for gold. But the contract reads in blood, not ink—and the "thing behind the mill" is not the tree, but his daughter, Clara. Her hands, broad and capable, have kept their crumbling world from ruin. Now they are the price.

Cast into a forest that hungers for the lost, Clara survives seven years on nettles, silence, and the memory of what her fingers could build. When a king finds her and forges her silver hands to replace the ones severed, she thinks the nightmare ended. But the stranger who owns the debt has not forgotten his due, and a war raging beyond the borders carries letters written in malice—orders substituted, a queen exiled, a child hidden in the wild.

From the mud-choked millrace to a cottage where a blind hermit tends wounds with grace, *Silver Hands for a Stolen Girl* reimagines the darkest Grimm tale as a saga of mutilation and mercy, of metal fused to bone, and of a daughter reclaiming the self no bargain can sever. Some debts are paid in silver. Others demand the whole woman.