Haunted by misogyny

“No one sees me,” Ania once said, “because I exist only in the form that they created for me. An object, an obstacle, a memory or a longing, it doesn’t matter how many different versions they create of me, it still amounts to an existence in someone else’s story.”

Hasn’t it always been that way? The voice was familiar and timeless. If we exist in any other form, they’ll surely cut us down, fold us up, or store us somewhere until they need us for their own purposes.

Ania didn’t want to see it. She couldn’t believe that the world was haunted by such misogyny. But even if she blinded herself to it, that malevolent truth would find her eventually.
 
Malevolent Fairy, the third part of the Tangled Knot trilogy, is available June 3, 2025.