Snow White A Tale — Of Terror

Lilia understood. The mirror could see innocence. It could track purity. But it could not see what Lilia was about to become.

Logline: After her father’s brutal death in the Crusades, a young noblewoman, Lilia, discovers that her beautiful new stepmother is not just a vain sorceress, but a creature who sustains her youth by harvesting the innocence of young maidens—and Lilia’s heart is the only one that can break the curse. Snow White A Tale Of Terror

The carriage carrying Lord Godfrey’s new bride arrived on a day the servants would never forget. The rain fell like tears from a hanged man, and the horses’ hooves sank into the mud of the courtyard as if the earth itself was trying to swallow them. Lilia understood

Only one heart in the county still burned with the fire of a true innocent, untouched by cruelty or compromise. A heart that had watched, and waited, and refused to break. But it could not see what Lilia was about to become

“Then you’d best come inside,” he said. “She won’t follow you here. The mountain hates her. And we…” He glanced at his six brothers, who had emerged silently from the other cottages, each one more broken than the last. “We hate her more.”