In this retelling of the classic French fairytale Beauty and the Beast, Keuser has melded magic, clockpunk, and romance to create a story that expands on the themes of both original versions as well as that of the 1995 Disney classic. Isabelle Marchant has only days left before her aunt’s plans to be rid of her come to fruition. Jaquel Gaston waits in the wings to marry her and take her far away to a life of servitude and silence. Tricked by an enchanted forest during a rainy walk home, Isabelle is lured to a long forgotten castle, where she finds a prince disfigured with clockwork and a palace full of orphans subject to a dark fairy’s whims. Arthur Velois has spent six years imprisoned in his castle as the dark fairy’s pet. His only consolation is that her presence is dictated by the full moon. When the forest brings him an orphan who is neither a child, nor a boy, he knows he and his charges will have to keep the fairy’s mechanical minions from discovering her. And though he knows he needs to find a way for her to leave, a selfish, lonely part of him wants to keep her in his home… and in his bed.

In this retelling of the classic German fairytale Hansel & Gretel, Keuser has melded magic, clockpunk, and romance to create a story that expands on the themes of the original version while adapting it into a romance between two emotionally powerful women. Hazel Velois has spent the last six years of her life under a fairy’s amnesia spell. Now that she knows who she is and where she belongs, she has plans to escape. But there is one person she can’t leave behind—the woman she’s come to love. Gretel has slaved in silent indignation for her mother’s business from the day she learned how to darn a sock, but when her mother suddenly remarries and plans to hand her off to the village’s local mob boss, she can’t remain obedient anymore. She won’t marry anyone but Hazel. Together, they flee in the night. When a search party closes in, they risk everything and plunge into an enchanted wood, where the dangers only multiply. Neither knows if they’ll survive the witch who’s stolen a fairy’s powers or a clockwork beast that could devour them whole.

Melding magic and ménage in this retelling of the classic tale, The Frog Prince, Keuser has created a story that pays homage to the original while offering a story that changes the paradigm. Heinrich’s loyalty to his prince earns him an iron corset when his iron fairy queen turns her stepson into a clockwork frog. The metal around his waist is not as painful as the potential loss of his closest friend. Maximillian’s curse traps him as an iron frog until moonlight touches him. Naked and accosted by ruffians drunk on enchantment, he plunges into a forest laced with silver magic. Sunlight drags him back under his stepmother’s spell. Silvia finds a discarded iron frog amid the silver leaves of her mother’s forest. Iron and silver do not mix. The feud between the two fairies has stretched through eons. Curiosity outweighs caution and she hides it away in her secret tower workshop. When the frog turns into a man who makes her knees week, a trespassing knight makes her think wicked things, and a mysterious figure tries to kill her, she finds more problems than answers. Helping both men and keeping one a secret won’t work. But will loving two men cursed to die be her true undoing?

A twist on the English classic, Keuser bends the tale of jack and his giants with a heavy infusion of fantasy, magic, and romance. Hints of Frankenstein and babel add depth and dimension to Jack’s tale. Jack has better things to do than jump at the beck and call of his new king. But when a knight descends on his mother’s farm determined to collect him, there’s no refusing. A trip to the palace and a declination of his king’s offer leaves him with a single choice: cross the channel, brave the dark of the jungle, and deal with the threat to their kingdom… or die. Mixing metal magic with that of nature, Orla makes a fairy’s bargain to avenge the death of her father. With her titanium cages, a witch’s enchanted beans, and the potential to open a portal into the Other, she’ll stop at nothing to destroy her brother and his new fairy queen. A man with an axe, a princess with a grudge, and a heat that flows between them could set the jungle on fire… assuming they don’t discover the other’s agenda.

The most divergent of Keuser’s retellings, Snow on the Sea explores a version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves that subverts the traditional tale. This retelling explores the story from a completely different angle and features characters from book one of the series. Heather Marchant is dying. Not fast enough, it would seem, for her aunt. When she wakes up to find an undertaker measuring her for her coffin, she knows she must flee or lose what little time she has left. Finding passage to another land is easy. Getting the powders she needs to treat the lung ailment that killed her mother is less so. But when her ship sails without her, and a huntsman haunts the shadows, she’ll make a bargain with the chemist that could change her life—however little she has left. A prince running from a kingdom of ice and snow, Xinjuan Sendi has nurtured a reputation in the foreign land she now calls home. Some think she’s a witch, others a closer relation to her fairy grandmother than she truly is. When she is introduced to Heather by a coughing fit strong enough it should have broken windows, she wishes she had the magic whispers claimed. Heather needs more help than the white powder she’d come to collect. An offer for a cure is the least Xin can provide, but the sacrifices it will incur may be both of their undoing. Hiding Heather, spelling her storefront, and employing distractions when necessary will only hold Heather’s aunt at bay for so long. If Xin cannot find a cure—and soon—the blood staining Heather’s lips might be the least of their worries. Falling in love wasn’t part of their bargain.