After the Forest Children's Literary Biographies and Christy hopes her parents

and Christy hopes her parents will make an exception to their “no dating until sixteen” rule

making thousands of tamales to sell so she can buy gifts for her family

they’ll claim what’s theirs

a wicked sense of humor

their parents—and maybe the world

After the Forest Children's Literary Biographies and Christy hopes her parentsAfter the Forest is a dark and enchanting fantasy debut from Kell Woods that explores the repercussions of a childhood filled with magic and a young woman contending with the truth of happily ever after. Ginger. Honey. Cinnamon. Flour. Twenty years after the witch in the gingerbread house, Greta and Hans are struggling to get by. Their mother and stepmother are long dead, Hans is deeply in debt from gambling, and the countryside lies in ruin, its