Meet Cinderella as you’ve never seen her before in this debut novella from Freya Marske, international bestselling author of the Last Binding trilogy – a Gothic fairy tale romance where the roles of the ghost, the house and the ingenue are all played by the same character.
13th October 2025
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Meet Cinderella as you’ve never seen her before in this debut novella from Freya Marske, international bestselling author of the Last Binding trilogy – a Gothic fairy tale romance where the roles of the ghost, the house and the ingenue are all played by the same character.
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Sparks fly and lovers dance in this gorgeous, yearning Cinderella retelling from bestselling author Freya Marske – a queer Gothic romance novella perfect for fans of Naomi Novik and T. Kingfisher.
'A spellbinding haunting'
LEX CROUCHER
You think you know Cinderella’s story: the ball, the magical shoes, the handsome prince.
You’re halfway right, and all-the-way wrong.
Ella is a haunting. Murdered at sixteen, her furious ghost is trapped in her father’s house, invisible to everyone except her stepmother and stepsisters.
Even when she discovers how to untether herself from her prison, there are limits. She cannot be seen or heard by the living people who surround her. Her family must never learn she is able to leave. And at the stroke of every midnight, she finds herself back on the staircase where she died.
Until she forges a wary friendship with a fairy charm-seller, and makes a bargain for three nights of almost-living freedom. Freedom that means she can finally be seen. Danced with. Touched.
'Whimsical, romantic, and bittersweet'
AVA REID
Rediscover a classic fairy tale in this spellbinding novella from Freya Marske, the queen of romantic fantasy.
Critic Reviews
Compelling characters, a spellbinding haunting and a powerful yearning that transcends death; Cinder House burns for you -- Lex Croucher, author of Gwen & Art Are Not in Love
Gorgeous, whimsical, romantic, and bittersweet, Cinder House both whisks you away and holds you over a flame. I was bespelled -- Ava Reid, Sunday Times bestselling author of Lady Macbeth
There’s nothing in fantasy – or queer romance – Marske can’t do -- Sarah Rees Brennan, author of Long Live Evil
Freya Marske’s books are something special . . . Freya Markse is my first stop in romantasy -- Sarah MacLean, New York Times bestselling author of Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake
Marske writes what I crave most in romantasy: brilliant craft, fresh voice, characters worth obsessing over and genuine honest-to-god heat -- Casey McQuiston New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue on Swordcrossed
About the Author
Freya Marske is the author of A Power Unbound, A Restless Truth and A Marvellous Light, the latter of which became an international bestseller and won the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Award for Romantic Fantasy. Her work has appeared in Analog and has been shortlisted for three Aurealis Awards. She is also a Hugo-nominated podcaster, and won the Ditmar Award for Best New Talent. She lives in Australia.
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13th October 2025
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