Having thrilled readers with her adult fairy tales in Red as Blood and Forests of the Night, Tanith Lee now gives us a novel-length version of her favorite old tale, "Snow White". Arpazia is the queen cold as snow who gives birth to a daughter with hair black as night and lips red as blood ... but she wants nothing to do with the child, violently conceived the night her father's castle was sacked. The child, Coira, grows up virtually abandoned in a war lord's palace ... until the elder gods lure mother and daughter into the woods. The book also features an introduction by Terri Windling about "Snow White" and modern fairy tale fiction.